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...Communist Party virtually disappeared overnight, its leadership disbanded, its offices padlocked, its funds frozen, its publications silenced -- though Pravda reappeared Saturday as an independent paper purportedly reflecting a "civic consensus." By a 283-to-29 vote, with 52 abstentions, the Supreme Soviet suspended party activities throughout the U.S.S.R., formalizing what had already been accomplished by decree in the individual republics. The Soviet parliament also dismissed the entire Cabinet of Ministers, which numbered around 70, after President Gorbachev announced with unaccustomed succinctness, "I cannot trust this Cabinet, and that is that." That leaves what is being called a "transitional government" -- transition...
Brent Scowcroft, the President's National Security Adviser, likes to cite a military adage: concentrate on your enemy's capabilities, not his intentions, since intentions can change overnight. START is the latest step in a process going back to 1969, the beginning of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), aimed at whittling away the Soviet capability of making war against...
...crushed Saddam Hussein's war machine and became an overnight TV star when he told the nation how he did it. He won standing ovations in Congress, cheers along parade routes and pleas to run for office. What more is left for General Norman Schwarzkopf than that final ratification of modern-day success, the best-selling autobiography? For months publishers have been salivating at the prospect of putting Schwarzkopf's life and thoughts between covers. Now Bantam Books has won the right to publish his memoirs, for a hefty price: more than $5 million for worldwide rights, probably the most...
...Says Boynton: "This is nearly as close to a certainty as one can get in science." Some scientists disagree. David Archibald, a biologist at San Diego State University, believes the extinctions took place more gradually and in a complex pattern. "There is zero evidence that dinosaurs became extinct virtually overnight...
State-owned enterprises became private overnight, with former Sandinista Cabinet ministers and army officers listed as executives. Chamorro's government is attempting to evict Ortega and a handful of other Sandinista squatters from their mansions. But for the most part, it has decided to ignore "la pinata." Says Antonio Lacayo, Chamorro's right-hand man: "In this country, political reality has more weight than...