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Lukanov learned of the honor we planned to bestow on him when one of our photographers requested a portrait session. The next thing I knew, there was a knock at the door of my apartment. I answered to find a small round man sweating nervously and burbling apologies in Russian. To lubricate what he clearly feared would be a difficult encounter, he had brought along a bottle of Bulgarian brandy. He also had a bouquet of flowers for my wife...
Earlier this month, after a political knock-down-and-drag-out in which the reformers routed the last of the Old Guard, Lukanov emerged as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He is a key member of a new, Gorbachevite leadership that is liberalizing the economy, is ready to share power with non-Communists and looks likely to do well in the free, multiparty elections it plans to hold in May. It would be nice to say you read about him here first, in a scouting report 17 years ago. But then maybe you wouldn't be reading about...
...believe in America and what it symbolizes. We believe in the idea of real competition between two hungry, mean teams ready to knock each other's heads off. In other words, we believe in Bud Bowl. And this time...
...there was a loud knock on the door. We did not respond. The door burst open. Peeling my eyelids apart, I saw two security guards, brandishing pistols. "Get up!" barked the larger...
...coffee-table tall. Bright and affectionate, the primarily dark gray or black porkers will happily feed on Purina Lab Mini- Pig Chow Grower, or on almost anything that falls off the dinner table. On the downside, they can outroot gophers in ruining a manicured lawn, and they love to knock telephone receivers off their cradles and poke the touch-tone dials with their sensitive snouts...