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...table but spurred most of the country's 15 republics to loosen if not actually break the ties that bind them to Moscow. On the other side is Boris Yeltsin, the Lazarus of Soviet politics, the blunt-spoken and somewhat erratic brawler of the streets who seems intent on leading a revolution against the Kremlin...
...whose every move is tactical, Gorbachev is intent on one overriding goal, stability, for the country and himself. In a speech last month in Minsk, he told workers, "I am decisively in favor of political and economic stabilization, for strengthening order, so that authority is authority and not jelly." He now favors a "stable political coalition of centrist forces" that will include more than the Communist Party but exclude radical democratic groups. He apparently envisions parliament and national politics as Communist- dominated but co-opting enough dissent to keep the comrades on their toes. "It is necessary to turn...
Deadly terror activity in Algeria and Morocco this month has offered new evidence that extremist groups across north Africa remain intent on attacking "infidel" regimes and their Western allies. But experts and security officials say there's no reason to believe that these groups are united or are taking orders from al-Qaeda - at least, not yet. "Infrequent contacts between groups have occurred, and limited exchanges of help provided, but there's no sign of operational coordination or integration," said a French counterterror official after the April 11 bombing in Algiers that killed 300 and injured over 300. Pointing...
...They had not wandered into one of the nation's top universities by accident; they had engineered and calculated and coaxed their way into this school, and they were going places, until one day they weren't anymore, stopped by the accumulated debris and derangement of another life, another intent long in the making...
...minutes Crystal Woodman-Miller hid under a table in the library during Klebold and Harris's rampage. A 16-year-old junior intent upon becoming an elementary school teacher, Woodman-Miller was spared death or injury along with two other students under the table, she now believes, because the shooters ran out of ammunition before they got to her group...