Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever is done about aid, though, outside powers have only marginal ability to influence what happens inside what must be called the former Soviet Union. Soviet citizens must decide their fate themselves, while the world holds its breath. The failed coup and the turmoil that has followed are fundamentally enormously hopeful events. If the immediate results are chaotic -- well, revolutions by their nature cannot be tidy. The trouble is that the most democratic revolutions can so easily degenerate into lasting chaos, out of which a new dictatorship can be born. Remember the February 1917 revolution that overthrew the Czar...
...famous roles: the sassy kid from Family Ties and the cherubic go-getter in the Back to the Future trilogy. And Hurt, Hollywood's white-collar star, mines wit and pain from a static character. The actor can get wondrously glum when he plays a smart guy flummoxed by fate, which is why he should have been cast as the hero-victims in Presumed Innocent and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Instead he got The Doctor, whose style -- earnest and low key, with a dash of irony -- complements Hurt...
ESSAY Barbara Ehrenreich on the fate of the workingman...
...company's stock collapsing in the wake of disclosures that Salomon had repeatedly tried to corner the market for Treasury securities, chairman John Gutfreund and president Thomas Strauss said they would offer their resignations at an emergency board meeting on Sunday. The firm said directors would also consider the fate of vice chairman John Meriwether, one of Wall Street's most respected bond traders. Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett, who owns $700 million of Salomon's preferred stock, said he would be willing to take Gutfreund's place as chairman and CEO until a permanent successor could be found...
...British journalist John McCarthy freed in Beirut last week after 1,940 days of captivity? Why now, after nearly a year of uneasy silence, punctuated by occasional threats about the fate of the remaining 12 Western hostages? And who orchestrated McCarthy's release: Iran? Syria? His captors? As ever, there was a stated trade-off. Islamic Jihad, a radical Shi'ite cell that operates beneath the larger umbrella of the pro-Iranian Hizballah, armed McCarthy with a sealed letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. It is believed to call for the release of 300 Shi'ites...