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...this year’s Leonid meteor shower, many said, did not disappoint—despite Tuesday morning’s full moon and the vast ambient light over much of Cambridge?...
...about 20 km from Chechnya. Russian officials said that a group of about 300 fighters crossed into Ingushetia from Georgia. see also: Tales from the Federation UKRAINE Kuchma in a Corner At least 2,000 people took to the streets of the capital Kiev demanding the resignation of President Leonid Kuchma, accused of corruption and involvement in the killing of a reporter. Opposition leaders occupied Kuchma's administrative building and began a hunger strike. Kuchma also faces trouble abroad: the U.S. accused him of having sold radar systems to Iraq, contravening U.N. sanctions. see also: TIME's Ukraine Archive IVORY...
...cronies key posts under Hu. Another possibility is that the pro-Jiang propaganda is just some last-minute image burnishing. But Jiang's rivals aren't taking any chances. They have started circulating essays about another communist leader who "didn't keep up with the times"--Leonid Brezhnev. By refusing to retire at his Communist Party's congress in 1981, Brezhnev threw the party into a leadership crisis after his death a year later, a legacy Jiang doesn't want to share...
UKRAINE Mine Blast Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma promised to close all unsafe coal mines following an explosion that killed 20 miners?the third major mining accident in the country in recent weeks. The blast occurred 1,076 m below ground at the Zasyadko mine in the eastern Donetsk region when about 700 miners were in the pit. Ukraine's aging mines are among the world's most dangerous...
...Leonid M. Ozernoy, a Russian physicist who fought the Soviet government for the freedom to leave the U.S.S.R. and teach at Harvard, died Feb. 28 in a Silver Spring, Md., hospital...