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...surprisingly, the senior military brass is not fond of Shchit. Most of the movement's leaders, including Urazhtsev, have been taken off active duty and expelled from the party. Now many officers keep their allegiance to the new organization secret. Says Nikolai Moskovchenko, 35, a major removed from active duty earlier this year for supporting the reformers: "The majority of soldiers and officers are with...
...public outcry when a TV personality is pushed toward unwilling retirement typically resembles a Roman candle on the Fourth of July: the blaze is bright but brief, the heat evanesces, and all that lingers is a fond memory in the mind's eye. That is how it has gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show...
Disabled-rights groups lobbied hard to defeat an amendment to the bill that would have exempted transit systems in cities of fewer than 200,000. They argued that disabled people should not be segregated in special buses or vans. But Stan Kocos, chairman of Disabled Advocates of Fond du Lac, admits that his group was torn between support for the new law and the Handi-Van. Says Kocos: "We want lifts on buses, and we want the alternative service. But we'd hate to see a taxpayer backlash...
Though finding accessible housing remains a problem for Fond du Lac's disabled, the city has made progress in opening some public accommodations. Movie theaters have removed rows of seats to make room for people in wheelchairs. Several service stations offer to pump gas at no extra charge for disabled drivers, and grocery stores provide electric carts for shoppers who cannot navigate the long aisles. Parking spaces marked with the blue-and-white symbol of a wheelchair are vigilantly guarded; anyone who illegally slips into one is subject to a $30 fine. Rather than rely on police to enforce...
...Reindeer (Morgan Shepherd). It's about obsessive imagery and compulsive behavior: half the people walk on crutches, and just about everybody chain-smokes, sometimes two cigarettes at a time. And, aptly for a film shown in the living movie museum of Cannes, Wild at Heart is Lynch's fond homage to The Wizard of Oz. Lula clicks her red slippers to get out of a jam. Her mom (played with lubricious abandon by Dern's mother Diane Ladd) is the Wicked Witch, all long nails, daft cackles and unquenchable vengeance...