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...right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live." Now that the Soviets are loosening the fist they clenched after Yalta, it will be up to two men in the Mediterranean to redeem the promises the Soviets made about Eastern Europe 44 long years...
When they met in the Soviet Crimea in February 1945 to plan the end of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin also set the stage for the long-running drama that may dominate next month's meeting off Malta. In effect, if not by intent, Roosevelt and Churchill sanctioned Soviet dominance over Eastern Europe. Now, 44 years later, George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev must grapple with the disintegration of that Soviet supremacy...
Actually, Ortega's main motivation may have been domestic politics. Nothing assures votes like a patriotic stance, and the Sandinistas have long fared well by whipping up war fears. Nicaraguans resent dying in this long-drawn-out conflict, and more of them blame the contras than the Sandinistas for the latest surge in countryside attacks...
...case, the contras cannot count on a rebound of U.S. aid, even though some of the sharpest U.S. reaction to Ortega's move came from liberal legislators who have long opposed U.S. aid to the guerrillas. Said one of them, Wisconsin Congressman David Obey: "Daniel Ortega is a fool and always has been." Despite Bush's initial outburst, the Administration's response otherwise remained low-key. That was due in part to a realization, as a senior Administration official put it, that "there's not the remotest chance Congress will okay the restoration of lethal aid." Congress abolished such assistance...
...neck of an antelope and the hindquarters of an ostrich. A mythological chimera? Not at all. "I stepped down into this gulch," recounts University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, "took 25 steps and screamed." Directly ahead, atop a sandstone knoll, lay the full skeleton of a 2-meter-long (about 6 ft.) carnivore. It proved to be the most ancient dinosaur discovered to date...