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...Cabinet of Ministers formed last month by new Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, a former Minister of Finance, confirms the complex's growing role in Kremlin politics. Two of Pavlov's first deputies are alumni of defense industries. Of the 38 Cabinet ministries, at least 20 have a direct role in running the military-industrial complex. At last week's Central Committee plenum, a man in uniform was added to the Politburo. He is Major General Mikhail Surkov, head of the Communist Party organization inside the armed forces. At the same time, the party secretary in charge of military production, Oleg...
...through an ocean of yelling Yeltsinites. To make sure the ban was enforced, the President took police powers away from the city council and turned them over to the national Interior Ministry, which mustered a virtual army of trucks, water cannons and troops in riot gear. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov spoke of "looming threats," and Anatoli Karpychev, deputy editor of Pravda, the party daily, charged that radicals were planning a coup. Declared he: "Preparations for the final storming of the Kremlin have already begun...
...test, which employs a form of learning made famous by Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, identified 19 of 20 people who had been diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's, said Diana Woodruff-Pak. But it also put seven of 20 healthy subjects in the same category, an error rate that must be reduced, she said...
Woodruff-Pak's test checks for a form of learning called classical conditioning. Essentially, that is learning to associate one stimulus with another. Pavlov showed dogs can learn that a particular sound meant a meal was coming...
...view prevails, an early probe could involve TV Marti, the Florida- based television station that began beaming American programming to Cuba last March. Radio Marti, which has penetrated Cuba for more than five years, has given Castro fits. TV Marti is "driving him even crazier," says Pavlov. As the father of both media moves, Mas sees TV Marti as a potential bargaining chip -- "like the way the U.S. used the placement of Pershing II missiles in Europe as leverage to force the ((intermediate-range nuclear forces)) treaty...