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University Marshal Richard M. Hunt calledBrundtland "a figure highly respected in theinternational community." Last fall, she wasconsidered a leading candidate for secretarygeneral of the United Nations...
...MILITARY. All opposition figures have supported the military in its complaints: low pay, poor housing and uncertainty brought on by the disintegration of the union. The army remains a powerful wild card. While Marshal Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, military commander of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, has assured both Yeltsin and the West that the army will not take part in any coup, some officers have suggested that they should take the initiative to "save" the country. Aware of the threat, Yeltsin has heeded the complaints: in January he raised officers' salaries...
When his old comrade Defense Minister Peng Dehuai told him the facts, Mao declared him an enemy, fired him and replaced him with Marshal Lin Biao (also apparently a drug addict). The country went bankrupt, and President Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, General Secretary of the Communist Party, took over day-to- day control to restore the economy...
Turning up late for a key diplomatic meeting is bad form. But when British Defense Secretary Tom King and his Russian counterpart, Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, finally popped into 10 Downing Street last month, their sheepish explanation took bosses John Major and Boris Yeltsin by surprise. Seems they'd been up till all hours sampling a precious case of 1939 Crimean champagne. Major exclaimed at the extravagance, but Yeltsin just seemed to feel left out. Said he: "Good God! I thought all of that vintage had been drunk by Khrushchev...
Prior to Friday's incident, Ingram was sought by law enforcement officials in several jurisdictions. Boston police, Cambridge police and the U.S. Marshal's office had issued warrants for his arrest...