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...seemed a straightforward assignment for the high-tech wizards in naval intelligence. They were alerted that the North Korean freighter Dae Hung Ho had sailed with a reputed cargo of Scud-C ballistic missiles bound ultimately for Syria, and they were told to track it. Last week an eager faction in the National Security Council and the State Department leaked word that the U.S. was determined to intercept the freighter and search its hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq...
...Many of the communist sympathizers are trying to broaden their appeal by adopting some of the nationalist and patriotic themes of the right wing. At last week's demonstration, symbols of Russian imperialism were almost as common a sight as the hammer and sickle. Viktor Alksnis, who led a faction of hard-liners in the old Soviet parliament, has teamed up with noncommunist nationalists in an umbrella movement called Nashi (Ours) that seeks to restore the U.S.S.R., whether in its previous form or as a new Russian empire. "Anyone who supports the union is ours," says Alksnis...
GOVERNMENT RIVALS. One of the government's most outspoken critics is the man legally entitled to take over if Yeltsin should depart: Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. He provided key support when his Communists for Democracy faction split with party hard-liners and backed Yeltsin's campaign for Russia's top post. Yeltsin rewarded him with the second spot, but since last fall Rutskoi has turned on his boss with a very public campaign against the economic reform plan of Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Though a proponent of reform in principle, Rutskoi recently described Gaidar's program of freeing prices...
...move would have been made months earlier had it not been for Ross's illness. One crystallizing factor, apparently, was the death of Borg-Warner chairman James F. Bere, a longtime member of the Time Inc. board who remained a director after the merger. With the so-called Time faction reduced by one, this theory goes, Ross and Levin knew that they could count on support from a majority of the board...
...number of thoughtful observers, both inside and outside the company, feel that Levin will be more able to bridge the two cultures than the reserved Nicholas was. But they doubt that Levin will help Ross complete any takeover. "Levin is not in the Ross faction," says Andrew Heiskell, a former chairman of Time Inc. "He's in the Levin faction." One Time Warner director predicts that under Levin "there's going to be a real effort to have the Time Incers feel they're more important and that they are players...