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...MOVIES . . . FIRST STRIKE: The plot Jackie Chan's new action film is standard spy hokum: he's caught in a nuclear arms chase involving the CIA, the former KGB and renegade merchants of death. It engrosses little and matters less. "As in musicals and porno films, it's the big numbers -- here the rampaging action scenes -- that carry a Chan movie," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. So see Jackie on killer stilts, Jackie jumping from a high ledge, Jackie battling in an aquarium stocked with great white (rubber) sharks. See, and marvel, as he fights off a dozen...
After being named presidential chief of staff within days after the final round of voting, Chubais brought together an eclectic group of people, such as Maxim Boyko, a Harvard-trained economist, and Yevgeni Savostyanov, an activist and disciple of Andrei Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government...
...hired two young men, Braynin's son Alan and Steven Moore, a public relations specialist from Washington, to assist them, and promptly established its office in a two-room suite at the President Hotel. The Americans lived elsewhere in the hotel and were provided with a car, a former KGB agent as a driver, and two bodyguards. They were told they should assume that their phones and rooms were bugged, that they should leave the hotel only infrequently, and that they should avoid the campaign's other staff members...
...vital," says Mikhail Margolev, who coordinated the Yeltsin account at Video International. Margolev had worked for five years in two American advertising agencies but freely acknowledges that his methods are still influenced by his earlier tenure as a propaganda specialist for the Soviet Communist Party and as an undercover KGB agent masquerading as a journalist for TASS, the Russian news agency. "The Americans helped teach us Western political-advertising techniques," says Margolev, "and most important, they caused our work to be accepted because they were the only ones really close to Tatiana. She was the key. The others...
...headed, Lebed accused the "energy barons" of accumulating "overwhelming influence." Lebed was bold enough last week to send Yeltsin a list of names he thought should be selected for the next Cabinet, including his nominees for the Defense Ministry and the Federal Security Service, the domestic successor to the KGB...