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...least for the moment, the threat of an outright economic war between the sundering union's republics. That prospect played no small part in pushing the commonwealth's founders together. When Yeltsin, Kravchuk, Belorussian leader Stanislav Shushkevich and some aides gathered at the Belovezhskaya Pushcha dacha, a forest retreat outside the city of Brest, on Saturday, Dec. 7, they appeared to have no intention of declaring the old union dead and founding a new association. But they quickly found they could not come to any other agreement -- and agreement was imperative...
...weeks ago, Gorbachev and Yeltsin agreed that one last effort had to be made to keep Ukraine in some sort of union. To that end, Yeltsin took advantage of an already scheduled trip to Belorussia to sign a trade agreement and invited Kravchuk to join the discussions at the forest dacha. According to their aides, the three initially tried to revive a Gorbachev idea to form a fairly loose Union of Sovereign States that would still have a central government of sorts. But all day Saturday, says Russian Deputy Prime Minister Gennadi Burbulis, they kept hitting "a dead end." Finally...
...American lawmaker had come to Peru for a firsthand look at that country's drug-interdiction efforts. "Why so much smoke?" asked Congressman ROBERT TORRICELLI of New Jersey as his helicopter waited to take off from a military outpost in the Huallaga Valley. "They are burning off the forest to plant more coca," answered the pilot. As the chopper circled over the municipal airport, the legislator noticed frantic activity on the runway. "They are loading cocaine," explained his guide. "Why don't the police and the military do something to stop it?" the Congressman asked his Peruvian hosts when...
Deep in their hearts, most journalists know that it's a waste of resources to have 300 reporters covering a murky rape trial in Southern Florida while the economy is disintegrating, the tropical rain forest is vanishing, the Bush Administration is stumbling, and the AIDS crisis is worsening. But the public seemingly can't get enough of the Kennedys, so reporters pour in from Italy, from France, from Spain, from Britain, from Manhattan, from everywhere. "I am here because of the Kennedy name," says Yvon Samuel of France-Soir. "Willie Smith is a nobody...
Nick talks about his father's friend who used to beat his wife up, and Ruth talks of people escaping and hiding them under petticoats and taking them to safety through the forest. These stories have a figurative purpose: Ruth and Nick are the babes in the wood, yet simultaneously mother and child and also the ones who have lost their way. Mamet deftly weaves these layers of imagery into the dialogue...