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...downward but also from the center outward to the republics -- without unhinging his entire reform program or, worse still, losing territory. Should Gorbachev accede to Lithuania's demand for secession, he knows, he will be pressed for comparable concessions from Estonia and Latvia. And once the secession fever infects the Baltics, the Kremlin fears, what is to stop it from spreading to the other republics? Last week Gorbachev's Politburo ally, Alexander Yakovlev, dubbed this unnerving prospect "the domino effect...
When did the Bush administration stop understanding English? It is insulting, even to Quayle, to equate his "evil empire" rhetoric with Bush's glasnost fever. It is equally insulting to claim that the American public can't tell the difference...
Besides the well-known rash and spots that measles causes, it usually causes a fever and in extremely rare cases can lead to encephalitis, a deadly brain tissue inflammation...
...moment he took office three weeks ago. Hundreds of thousands marched through East Berlin on Saturday calling for change. In many major cities tens of thousands attended open-air meetings with government and party leaders to vent their complaints and demands. In Moscow Krenz sought to cool the reform fever raging through his country by paying polite compliments to the perestroika that East German leaders had formerly held in contempt. The Soviet experiments could "teach us a great deal," he said after being closeted for three hours with Mikhail Gorbachev. "We are ready to put the vanguard experience...
...pleased by the demise of that quintessentially 1970s conduit of musical mush, the eight-track tape, which had the annoying habit of dividing songs as it switched tracks, and also seemed to be what you bought for such embarrassing works (mistakes?) as the soundtracks to Grease and Saturday Night Fever, or anything by Andy Gibb, Bachman Turner Overdrive or Barry Manilow (yes, I admit it, I once owned this stuff; anyone who tells you they never did is lying...