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...aside, Superman. Get back, Batman. Make way for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the latest superheroes to make the big leap from comic books to the silver screen. The who?, you say. Then you haven't been paying attention. The Turtles -- four wisecracking, pizza-guzzling reptile masters of the martial arts -- are already the biggest animated adventure act to hit television since Ghostbusters cartoons. Kids adore their hip and slightly naughty sense of humor ("Let's haul shell out of here"). "I like Michaelangelo because he's a smooth dude, a party animal," says Michael Serio, a 7-year...
...gates of an army base in Vilnius, the ominous parade was obviously intended to intimidate the Lithuanians. But the ploy only persuaded the legislators to prepare for the worst. They immediately passed an emergency resolution to transfer their authority to the republic's representative in Washington in case martial law was imposed...
...Caribbean blue eyes. The knowing mouth. A fine figure that stops just this side of martial artistry. These are the anonymous good looks of an afternoon actor. Alec Baldwin started in soaps, and he could have stagnated there. But moviemakers recognized his restless intelligence, and now moviegoers are in on the secret. Smart Alec, 31, is a talent Hollywood can bank...
...already commander in chief of the armed forces. But the new law passed last week will formalize the President's control not only of the military but also of Interior Ministry troops and the KGB. He will appoint and preside over the Cabinet of Ministers, declare emergencies and martial law, issue executive orders, veto laws and dissolve the legislature. One of the debaters who annoyed Gorbachev last week, Sergei Stankevich, a liberal Moscow Deputy, said, "We can still feel the great totalitarian tradition in this country." The President responded, "It has nothing to do with Gorbachev's power. What does...
...runoff elections in 20 of the 51 undecided districts. That will enable them to convene the new Lithuanian Supreme Soviet before Gorbachev is officially invested with his new powers at a Congress of People's Deputies session scheduled to begin on March 12. Reflecting on the possible threat of martial law, Cekuolis said, "We want to keep one jump ahead of Moscow." The republic's president and Communist Party chief, Algirdas Brazauskas, called on Moscow to begin independence negotiations "in the near future" to establish "stable international relations and economic cooperation between the U.S.S.R. and Lithuania...