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Zhirinovsky: I wouldn't say that America is an enemy in the literal sense of the word. There are no straightforward military actions. ((But)) a secret war has been going on for 50 years now . . . If your aim was to bring Russia to collapse, ((perestroika)) was perfectly executed because you could have done nothing better to destroy Russia...
Zhirinovsky: This is nothing original to me. I am just passing on propaganda. ((But)) the fact is that a majority of people who made the ((Bolshevik)) Revolution possible, as well as perestroika, were of Jewish origin. In fact, the first Soviet government was almost 90% Jewish. Those who first ran the Gulag prison camps were mostly Jewish, although they were later wiped out by Stalin, because they were Jews...
...writer Richard N. Ostling, who's sneaked an advance peak, says U.S. distributor Alfred A. Knopf's million-copy advance printing may be an American record. The $20 hardcover is being put on sale in 35 countries in 21 languages, a commercial feat rivaled only by Mikhail Gorbachev's "Perestroika" and Madonna's teaser "Sex." Ostling, who says many expected repackaged boilerplate from the Holy See, says the Pope's book actually breaks new ground by providing his personal (if unsurprising) views on abortion, Marxism, competing religions and bad things happening to good people. "What he does," Ostling says...
...plus receive a promotion to assistant to the President. But Myers also reportedly told friends she's splitting from the White House before the year is out. Other changes in the President's office sound like small potatoes compared with Panetta's previous promise of a major perestroika: communications director Mark Gearan, for example, is now Panetta's coordinator of strategic planning. Myers' savior was apparently President Clinton himself, who met with her Thursday night. "Clinton undercut the chief of staff he supposedly gave the power to do whatever it takes," says TIME White House correspondent James Carney...
...opened to mixed reviews. In a season that made it sometimes difficult for the nominating committee to meet a minimum of four plays per category, revivals ! made just as much news, topped by She Loves Me, which also received nine nominations. The most honored drama was Tony Kushner's Perestroika, the second half of Angels in America, with six nominations...