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Such healthy debate and lovely talk! There is a total lack of political culture in the whole space of the former Soviet Union. The typical Soviet mentality was to take up your rifle and grab power. We were brought up with this idea. One day Comrade Lenin did it, so you too can seize a gun and establish a paradise on earth. Now there is more than one Comrade Lenin in our areas of ethnic conflict. After they take up their rifles, they ask for peacekeeping forces, which really means, "Be with me and help me defeat the other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andrei Kozyrev: You Can't Expect Angels To Appear Overnight | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...proceeded to grab money form locations in the tellers' area. He departed and turned left into an alleyway, police said...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Bank Robber Nabbed By Police | 7/6/1994 | See Source »

...custody. Cowling shuttled back and forth to the doorway, then the car, calming O.J., talking anxiously to the cops. "He was really pumped up; he was going -- you could see that," said SWAT team commander Mike Albanese. "Cowling wouldn't come in the house because he figured we'd grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: O.J. Simpson: End of the Run | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...swat team weighed the standard choices. They could use tear gas. They could wait until O.J. fell asleep. They could divert him with flash grenades and then move in to grab him. Or they could try to talk him out. What they wanted to avoid at all costs was what they called "suicide by cop," when a cornered suspect comes out with a gun drawn and forces police to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: O.J. Simpson: End of the Run | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...country may be ready for it yet, but Senate minority leader Bob Dole acknowledged that he has begun maneuvering for the 1996 presidential election just in case. Dole has instructed advisers to line up some key G.O.P. political strategists and fund raisers in his corner before other Republican hopefuls grab them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week June 12-18 | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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