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...that matter, they did not raise a voice in protest earlier this month when the Marxist guerrilla front in El Salvador began an offensive that prompted the latest wave of violence in the decade-old civil...
...West. Former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami, one of the most intransigent of the revolutionary mullahs, was excluded from Rafsanjani's government earlier this year. He can still get mobs out into the streets, however, as he proved by leading large anti-American demonstrations in Tehran earlier this month to mark the tenth anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy...
Events like that make the White House think Rafsanjani cannot yet deliver even if he wants to. "We're continuing behind the scenes to try to follow ; certain rabbit trails," the President said last week. "So far, they've ended up at dead ends." Earlier this month U.S. intelligence sources reported rumors that the hostages would be released on the anniversary of the embassy seizure. That hope also proved false. Now Americans must wait to see if the agreement in the Hague will amount to a further move in the hostage game, or just another dead...
Late last month Mikhail Gorbachev privately encouraged the leaders of Estonia and the other two Baltic republics, Latvia and Lithuania, to keep pushing for "self-determination." But, Gorbachev continued, "you must not demand that you leave the U.S.S.R." There were nods in the room from those who fear a violent Russian backlash against the Balts for their self- assertiveness and against Gorbachev himself for his tolerance of separatism...
This week the Kids leave home (everyone still lives with his family) for a five-month tour. Starr will show up only occasionally, so the fans, Donnie thinks, will finally learn that "Danny is a great songwriter, Jordan is a great keyboardist, that I am a drummer and singer and dancer." Four years ago, Jordan auditioned for Starr and got told, "Get ready to be great. You are going to be the biggest thing in the world." Replied Jordan: "All I want is a scooter." He got his wish, and then some. Just now, the New Kids on the Block...