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...economic war. The Russian parliament last week passed a law placing all property in Russian territory, except that belonging to the Soviet military or the KGB, under its control. Gorbachev had earlier got the Supreme Soviet to grant him power to fire the heads of businesses that refuse to obey orders from the central government. It remains to be seen which jurisdiction can make its claims stick...
...there will be strong pressures driving the center and the republics toward compromise. Neither seems able to overcome the other economically; the republics can probably no more get the managers of state enterprises to obey their commands than Gorbachev can enforce his decrees. Yeltsin and his aides proclaim continued readiness to join Gorbachev in some kind of coalition government of "national trust" to guide the Union through the wrenching transition to a market economy. The Yeltsinites insist, however, that any coalition must drop Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. So far, Gorbachev has shown no disposition to dump...
Atten-shun! There will be no sex in dormitories. That's an order at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, and for many of the school's 4,410 cadets, 553 of whom are women, it is one of the toughest to obey. But rarely has the rule been breached as flagrantly as in a case revealed last week: a sexual encounter between a male and a female cadet, conducted under the watchful eyes of six male classmates hiding in a dorm closet. The romp landed the woman, who became distraught upon learning how public the performance had been...
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey...
...attempt was under way. According to that scenario, long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...