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...ordered all government ministries to cooperate fully. Declared the President: "If responsibility is proved, the guilty, at whatever level they find themselves, should be severely punished." The French intelligence agency denied official involvement in the attack, but other government insiders speculate that a maverick faction could have acted without high-level approval...
Diana McLellan, who built quite a career on high-level gossip (she wrote "The Ear" column for the Washington Star and the Washington Post and then "Diana Hears" for the Washington Times), has quit after a decade of nibbling her way to the top. "Gossip is now on the front pages," she says wistfully. An amateur artist as well as a wordsmith, she has gone on to paint and write novels...
Anyway, this is all getting away from my major point, which is that with all this high-level discourse it’s very easy to overlook the fact that people who are talented—technically and artistically—have really, really hard odds to beat. I’m not defending John Mayer here (I think you’ll remember that I hate him as you do), but I’m trying to point out that it’s not always possible to be a revolutionary in the music world. To those that...
There was other compelling evidence last week that Gorbachev is carrying out a high-level shuffle of the Soviet military. The current Warsaw Pact commander, Marshal Viktor Kulikov, 64, it was rumored, had been given a lesser post. Marshal Vladimir Tolubko, 70, who was in charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev...
...Justice Department's criminal division. Both had earlier approved the strike-force decision to present the Presser evidence to the same Cleveland grand jury that indicted the other men. The two Government officials changed their minds after Presser's lawyers asked the department last month for a high-level review of the case. The FBI joined the review, saying that its program of protecting informers would be jeopardized if the Teamsters chief was brought to trial...