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...began patrolling the streets with tanks and armored vehicles were charged with a delicate mission: to calm the latest and most volatile outburst of ethnic unrest so far in Armenia and the % neighboring republic of Azerbaijan. The show of force indicated that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was eager to halt the regional conflict, which has become an embarrassing distraction from his goal of reforming Soviet political and economic life, as well as a potential weapon in the hands of his enemies...
...electronic funds-transfer system, which is essential to the operation of the nation's banks. No stock- or commodity-exchange computer centers have crashed. No insurance-company rolls have been wiped out. No pension funds have had their records scrambled. No air-traffic-control systems have ground to a halt. And the U.S. military-defense system remains largely uncompromised, although there have been published reports of virus attacks at both...
Indeed, years from now, historians may view Bennett as movement conservatives now do, namely as a reformist crusader battling on behalf of middle-income families against the education community, working to reform curricula, eliminate drug abuse on campus, and halt rapidly rising college costs...
Seoul is, of course, a city perpetually on alert, many of whose citizens believe themselves at war. Antitank walls line the highway leading out of town to the DMZ, just 35 miles away, and air-raid drills bring the city to a halt on the 15th of each month. Soldiers are everywhere (museums even offer specially priced "soldier" tickets). Yet for all that, the city is much calmer than the choreographed, telegenic demonstrations suggest. For most of the area's residents, the convulsions of the "demo-crazy" students are as remote as South Bronx gangland warfare to a businessman...
...your desire to be perceived as a tasteful, responsible citizen and you can get laughs out of anything: Hitler (The Producers), sacrilege (Life of Brian) and, yes, Latin American dictatorships (The In-Laws). All you really risk is the outrage of people whose senses of humor screech to a halt when it comes to their most cherished beliefs...