Word: existing
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...numbers of the 78,000 soldiers unaccounted for in Europe wound up in the Soviet Union. POW/MIA organizations see positive signs in the appointment of Vadim Bakatin as head of the KGB. Bakatin is a reformer who, as Interior Minister, pledged to search secret files that are believed to exist on misplaced Americans...
...facts everyone is agreed: the old unitary state in which the Kremlin tightly controlled every aspect of life is dead; the Other Superpower that overshadowed the 20th century -- and the American imagination as long as most of us have lived -- is no more. "The former Union has ceased to exist, and there is no return to it," says Leningrad Mayor Anatoli Sobchak, a prime mover in attempts to devise some arrangement to replace...
Several other potential stumbling blocks exist. Islamic Jihad's call for "the release of all detainees around the world," if serious, may bring at least seven other European countries into the negotiations. Five Arab terrorists are held in Britain, two in France, two in Greece, five in Italy, three in Spain, three in Sweden and one in Switzerland. Most of these men have been convicted of crimes; the others are awaiting trial for acts ranging from the importation of explosives to the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Perez de Cuellar signaled that the release...
...news media faced nearly 4,500 subpoenas in 1989, the only year for which statistics exist. Editors and attorneys agree that the volume has surged since. The demands have expanded beyond criminal cases to civil suits, which now account for a third of all subpoenas. Some involve government policy or alleged libel. Many are routine requests for published stories. But in a rising number of cases, the demands are invasive, the battle is over money, and the conflict strictly involves private parties. That was actually the case in Cincinnati, where P&G failed to prevent the leaking of internal policy...
...immediate, angry reaction in the Arab world highlighted the deep rifts that exist among kidnapping clans inside Lebanon. Hours before Leyraud disappeared, Lebanon's most influential Shi'ite cleric, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, renewed his persistent calls for a freeing of all foreign hostages. In successive interviews with British and American journalists, Fadlallah insisted that "the ploys of hostage dealing have been exhausted" and that even Iranian hard-liners "desire an end to the whole problem...