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...similar facedown was shaping up in Georgia. The ferociously independent Caucasus republic was ordered by Gorbachev to withdraw its police from the autonomous enclave of South Ossetia. While asserting their own right to go it alone, Georgians have clamped down vigorously on Ossetians venturing to break away from Georgia. Lawmakers in Tbilisi called Gorbachev's fiat "interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign republic...
...wondering," Alan muses, "who you are," and Claus replies, "Who would you like me to be?" And Sunny (Glenn Close) relates her own version from the hospital bed where she vegetates -- the most audacious narrative device since Sunset Blvd.' s story was told by a corpse floating facedown in a swimming pool...
Others are not so sure. In Jordan observers note that the facedown with Saddam has united Communists, Baath socialists and Islamic fundamentalists into a single anti-American front, something that has never happened before. If Saddam should succeed in bringing Israel into a war with the U.S., the result would be sheer political disaster. Such a conflict would look like a ganging up of the U.S. and Israel against the Arabs. Hatred of the U.S. could lead to coups toppling pro-American governments throughout the region as well as widespread terrorism...
...Lying facedown in the dirt -- the place where young men netted by the Los Angeles police department's vaunted antigang sweeps frequently wind up -- Javier Gonzalez, 18, watched in terror as an officer slammed Lewayne Williamson's head into the ground. "The cop asked if he was in a gang. Lewayne said no and was hit," Gonzalez recalls. "He said no again and was hit again. By the time they got to me, five or six people had already been whacked." Fearful of being beaten, Gonzalez blurted yes when asked if he was a gang member. Over the next...
...nightmare began nearly seven years ago. In the early-morning hours of Jan. 11, 1983, Nancy Cruzan's car swerved on an icy and deserted Missouri country road. The car flipped and crashed. The 25-year-old woman tumbled out and landed facedown in a ditch. Medical help arrived promptly enough to save her life but not fast enough to save her oxygen-deprived brain...