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...then, a special detachment of KGB troops had surrounded his vacation house. Just in case Gorbachev somehow got out and tried to return to Moscow, KGB units drove tractors across the runway of the nearby airport to prevent Gorbachev's TU-134 presidential jet from taking...
...offer from the Soviet barnstormers is for the well heeled, not the fainthearted. For a mere $10,000, the American air-show buff can now buy a few minutes of thrills as a passenger in a MiG-29 Fulcrum, the U.S.S.R.'s hottest jet fighter. A few intrepid customers have signed up for rides ranging from a gentle swing around the airfield to a serious workout at 1,500 m.p.h. The thrills start this weekend at Massachusetts' Westfield-Barnes airport and then continue at shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and California...
...target of a Miami grand jury investigation of CenTrust, struggled to keep the institution's doors -- and coffers -- open. Pharaon assured regulators that he was backed by oil-rich Arabs who would keep CenTrust solvent. When that tack failed to deter officials, Pharaon and Paul flew CenTrust's corporate jet to Washington to give similar promises to M. Danny Wall, who chaired the Home Loan Bank Board at the time. (Wall recalled the meeting in an interview but said he could not remember the outcome.) After the session, regulators said CenTrust could remain open by selling bonds to shore...
...also disclosed more specifics about Iraq's uranium-enrichment programs, the linchpin of Baghdad's efforts to develop an atom bomb. In addition to the three methods for separating uranium isotopes -- gas centrifuge, calutron and gaseous diffusion -- already identified by Washington, Iraq relied on a chemical technique and a jet-nozzle process used in South Africa. New intelligence information has also confirmed that Iraq's chemical stocks are actually 40% larger than Baghdad has admitted. Inspection efforts have been hampered because much of the stock is either buried beneath rubble or stored in leaking canisters that pose health risks...
...with the Prime Minister. Seven weeks later, they have still received no response, so most stay home passively and grow beards -- an officer corps on a genteel sit-down strike. "A coup, a civil war?" laughs an air-force officer whose Hawk missile antiaircraft battery shot down four Iraqi jet fighters on the day of the invasion. "We're all too comfortable economically to even think of revolution. Maybe if we had a hint at what might follow the Sabahs if they were overthrown, we would...