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...except perhaps his closest relatives to consider him relevant. And with elections taking place Sunday, the Communist Prime Minister of East Germany has less than a week to go in an office that may not even exist by this time next year. Hans Modrow, 62, is the lamest of lame ducks: outgoing leader of a vanishing state, standard bearer of a vanishing party...
...know it sounds lame, but I'm not that big of a hockey-watcher," said Murphy, who just happened to be watching part of the Bruins-Flyers game on television. "I'm not that interested in seeing who wins...
...Havana's brand of socialism was once attractive to many Cubans, its allure has diminished considerably. The country's growing alienation from the rest of the communist world threatens an end to the aid and favorable trade arrangements that have kept its lame economy hobbling along. At the same time, many Cubans are weary of stagnation. "Castro is probably faced right now with the greatest challenge he's ever had to his rule," says a senior Bush Administration official. "A year ago, nobody was even questioning that he would continue in power until he died. Now it is a subject...
Cuba's growing alienation from the rest of the communist world threatens an end to the aid and favorable trade arrangements that have kept its lame economy hobbling along. -- Across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, other regimes also confront a money squeeze as Soviet funds dry up. -- With his brazen assertiveness and failure to endorse current borders, West Germany's Chancellor is creating unease over unification...
...angered by the Panama invasion was Peru's lame-duck President Alan Garcia Perez that he recalled his Ambassador to Washington and vowed not to attend the summit "as long as North American troops are illegally in Panama." After an appeal from Colombia's President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Garcia had a change of heart, and he now plans to be on hand in Cartagena. But tensions were further inflamed when in the heady days after Noriega's fall, the Pentagon clumsily leaked word of its plan to station an aircraft-carrier task force in international waters off Colombia's Caribbean...