Word: mavericks
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...Communist Party Central Committee plenum, Gorbachev invited the leaders of nine of the 15 Soviet republics, including Russia's maverick chief, Boris Yeltsin, to a conference at a secluded dacha in the woods outside Moscow. The six republics that are bent on immediate independence -- Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldavia, Georgia and Armenia -- were not asked...
...Lampoon allegedly harbors bad feelings towards former Cambridge mayor and Freedom tree-planter Alfred E. Vellucci. And while many suspect that the butchering and poisoning may have been the Lampoon's revenge against the maverick former mayor, nothing has been proven...
...Maverick. These air-to-ground guided missiles proved less effective than some others, often missing their target, and no new buys had been scheduled for next year. But $370 million has been appropriated to buy 5,000 new Mavericks to join the 11,500 in Air Force stockpiles...
...ailing Soviet economy, the mine strike has been festering for years. But Gorbachev brought last week's confrontation in the capital on himself. Communists inside the Russian republic's parliament had called a special session to mount a no-confidence vote against Yeltsin. Many feel that the maverick Russian should be dismissed for demanding Gorbachev's resignation, for supporting the breakaway Baltic republics and for such other sins as suggesting a separate Russian army...
...report informing Congress that it is considering more than $18 billion in new military sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Saudi Arabia alone would get a $10 billion wish list that includes 25 F-15 fighters, 36 Apache attack helicopters, 2,400 Maverick missiles and 235 M1A1 tanks. For American defense contractors, these sales promise an escape from the gloomy fate spelled out in the budget package adopted by Congress last fall, in which U.S. defense spending is slated to shrink 25% over the next five years...