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This smorgasbord of candidates will confront Russian voters on Dec. 12 in the country's first parliamentary elections without a Czar or communist overlord. It is a landmark the historic import of which is exceeded only by the confusion that surrounds the array of parties elbowing one another for a place at the table. On the same day voters choose their new representatives, they will also pass judgment on a draft constitution that dramatically strengthens the power of the President and opens Boris Yeltsin to the charge that he is less interested in building democracy than in consolidating...
...dear dead past. A Grand Night for Singing is a cabaret collage of the 1943-to-1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook. The Red Shoes is so closely based on the 1948 ballet film that it uses footage from it as the basis of TV ads. Cyrano the Musical, an import from Amsterdam, retells a much told romance, written in the 19th century and set in the 17th. Disney's Beauty and the Beast will transpose to the stage the hit songs and scenic devices of the 1991 animated film, itself based on a venerable fairy tale. If art is supposed...
...treaty will eliminate almost all tariffs over a 15-year period, with industries facing the stiffest import competition given the longest time to adjust...
Tariffs on half of currently taxed products will be dropped immediately, as would all Mexican import licenses, which cover one-fourth of U.S. exports...
...export stability," says German Defense Minister Volker Ruhe, "we will import instability." Those opposed to the concept argue that growing bigger could introduce enough regional quarrels to unravel NATO. The skeptics warn particularly against isolating and antagonizing Russia, creating threats that do not now exist. Though Christopher and Defense Secretary Les Aspin say the republics of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, could become eligible to join in the future, there is no realistic chance Moscow would sign on as a junior partner in an alliance dominated by the U.S. and Germany...