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...ancients used to say, the war is not over as long as the last slain soldier remains unburied." With these words Russian President Boris Yeltsin made an effort last week to help mend the scars of the cold war. In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the 1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft -- incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated...
COVER STORIES: A Shocked Nation Wonders What Went Wrong and How to Mend...
...black rockers like Jimi Hendrix, the Ohio Players, and Sly and the Family Stone danced back and forth across the color line. That ended with the disco era of the 1970s, whose slick, producer-driven, synthesizer-motorized tunes created a racial schism in pop music that has yet to mend...
Much as administrators may try to sugarcoat it with cute stories and happy talk, the Faculty's budget crisis--an $11.7 million deficit with the prospect of a widening gap between income and expenditures--will require serious work to mend...
Call it the Anita Hill syndrome. Last week three women withdrew from testifying before a Senate subcommittee that is examining how sex discrimination keeps women out of the top corporate ranks. The Senate has some fences to mend...