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...would a people so recently freed from totalitarian rule choose a course that could quickly lead to their renewed oppression? Part of the answer can be found in the abuse Yeltsin received in Yaroslavl. "A lot of Russians have come to identify various aspects of what we call reform not with a better future but with hardship," explains U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (and former TIME editor at large) Strobe Talbott, who oversees the Clinton Administration's Russia policy. "Crime and corruption are both broad based and deeply rooted," Talbott says. "They pose huge obstacles to Russia staying...
INDICTED. JOE WALDHOLTZ, 33, estranged husband of Utah Representative Enid Greene; on 27 counts of bank fraud; in Washington. He was also freed from a Pittsburgh jail after accounting for money entrusted to him for investment by his grandmother. He had spent most of it on himself...
BARRY SCHECK Convicted rapist freed by the Perry Mason of DNA is arrested again. The charge: rape...
Second, and more significant, is that the class of 1999, responding to the cry of randomization and freed from the fear of being quadded, chose to live in larger blocking groups than any class in recent history. Blocking groups of more than 12 were commonplace for the first-years...
Burma (also known as Myanmar) has one of the worst human rights records in the world. Although the most prominent dissident, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been freed, pro-democracy leaders continue to be imprisoned. Forced labor and forced relocations are commonplace; often whole villages are destroyed to make way for new development or the American-sponsored oil pipeline. Extrajudicial executions, torture, rape and forced prostitution are regularly practiced by the armed forces. During one incident last month, 11 villagers were killed, two women were stripped and tortured and three people were arrested...