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...Savoie region's magnificent mountain peaks. Following Albertville's opening ceremony this Saturday, the Olympics will take off into the wild white yonder of Val d'Isere, Courchevel and other mountaintop resorts. "I would like people to go home feeling that they spent a fortnight on another planet," says Jean-Claude Killy, ski-racing legend and co-president of the Games...
George Bush looked more than a little relieved. After two years of stalling, his top aides had finally worked out a civil rights compromise with Congress -- and none too soon. Bush hardly relished the prospect of vetoing a civil rights bill in the same fortnight that the Senate nearly disintegrated over the Clarence Thomas nomination and an ex-Klansman named David Duke became the Republican Party candidate in Louisiana's gubernatorial runoff...
Nothing, Samuel Johnson once remarked, so concentrates a man's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in a fortnight. In the Middle East, the approach of a peace conference has the same effect. As Secretary of State James Baker took off last weekend for what he called his final swing to nail down arrangements for the gathering that will at last bring Arabs and Israelis face to face, those two sides were anxiously bumping and jostling each other...
...Union, they were noticeably hesitant about giving a direct answer. "Who can say?" one speaker finally ventured. "Look at how much Gorbachev's image has changed over the past few days. Who knows what it will be like in even a month's time?" If events of the past fortnight have taught any lesson, it is this: no one should rush to write off Mikhail Gorbachev...
What remains of the present Soviet government, meanwhile, is dissolving at breakneck speed. Institutions that had seemed both immutable and central to Soviet life are vanishing into thin air or being turned inside out at a dizzying pace. A citizen who returned last week from a fortnight out of the country might think he had awakened from a decades-long Rip van Winkle sleep, so totally had the country changed in his absence...