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There came a burst of euphoria when the reactionaries' coup failed. Then the headlong dismantling. Here was the famous domino effect in reverse, whole peoples going uncommunist by chain reaction: Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia. The future, sunny a moment earlier, suddenly looked problematic and dangerous. What of the 27,000 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles, bombers, submarines and at ammunition dumps across the old Union? Would the world see a medieval fragmentation, reversion to the old city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic...
...Kremlin, is no longer even trying to keep the three Baltic republics in any kind of union. A rapidly growing list of foreign governments last week formally recognized Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia as independent countries and even began talking about seating them in the United Nations. But the headlong trend toward dissolution did not stop there. At last count, seven more republics -- the number last week was changing almost daily -- had also declared independence, and they include such keystones of the Union as Ukraine and Belorussia. Ukraine, if it actually goes all the way, would be the fifth largest nation...
...sunset years with his wife (Della Reese) are interrupted by yet another band of unwanted relatives: their daughter and grandchildren from Philadelphia. It's hard to know which is more annoying -- these paper-thin pretexts for put-down jokes or the cavalier way they are tossed aside in a headlong rush for the heartstrings...
...American Games, which began in Havana last week, have instilled a renewed sense of pride, but the headlong rush to develop tourist hotels that are barred to most Cubans has caused resentment. "We were born into socialism, but sometimes we feel we have nothing. We can't eat where tourists eat. We can't drink where tourists drink," says an angry 26-year-old at Havana's La Playita beach. "What would Marx and Engels say to that...
...breadth of the Iraqi enrichment effort, and suspected that Saddam's disclosure only hinted at his actual nuclear capability. Indeed, the intelligence failure is almost as frightening as the prospect of Saddam's bomb. After Israeli jets destroyed Iraq's Osirak research reactor in 1981, Baghdad embarked headlong on a secret enrichment program that relied on an old-fashioned method called electromagnetic isotope separation. Used by Manhattan Project scientists in the 1940s, the technology is considered so obsolete that it is discussed openly in scientific literature and can be built from relatively common electrical components. Though time consuming and unreliable...