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...thought he had secured an agreement on the pact after a 70-hour marathon of closed-door bargaining with provincial premiers in Ottawa. Last week he saw that deal fall apart when the legislatures of Manitoba and Newfoundland adjourned without taking ratification votes. "Today is not the day to launch new constitutional initiatives," a somber Mulroney said afterward. "It is a time to heal wounds and reach out to fellow Canadians...
...short, impish professor of Greek extraction, Popov, 53, was elected mayor of Moscow last April. He and his reformist colleagues plan to open a computerized apartment-rental service and launch an industrial-commodities exchange to barter needed items among enterprises. They have also called for soup kitchens to help cushion the transition to a market economy. Popov and his city council have not managed basic reforms, but they represent a challenge to Gorbachev simply by being in a position to experiment. Popov is one of the founders of the progressive Interregional Group in parliament, and he has criticized Ryzhkov...
After Bush vetoes FMLA, both House and Senate members will launch a campaign to override. In both bodies, the necessary votes for an override are very likely attainable. If FMLA garners the support necessary for an override, it will be yet another indication that Bush is totally unwilling to act as a responsible representative of this nation's people...
...spot the shovels of Burmese soldiers digging deeper trenches across the way. Ammunition is scarce, and so the Karens rely on mines handcrafted from bamboo and fuse-lighted grenades that are no more sophisticated than the ancient British Grenadier devices that gave them the name. Sometimes the Karens launch the grenades by catapult, stretching thick rubber bands between two stakes like a giant slingshot...
...financial analysts to be worth perhaps $1.5 billion today. The magazines have generally prospered, even in a declining ad market, despite the fact that several of them compete for the same young and fashionable female readers. Newhouse plainly believes there is room for more: next year the company will launch Allure, a beauty magazine aimed, says editor Linda Wells, at "women who don't have hours to spend lounging around in the tub." Newhouse is equally willing to have competing titles for men. After paying a reported $2 million for Details, a modish magazine centered on Manhattan's avant-garde...