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...incompetents from the city's payroll and arrested hundreds of others for corruption. Embarrassed by Yeltsin's increasingly critical tone, Gorbachev in late 1987 forced him out of the Politburo and humiliated him at a closed plenum of the Moscow party committee, after Yeltsin had made an impassioned plea for greater democracy. On Moscow streets the news of his downfall was greeted with something akin to mourning...
Yeltsin penned his plea after Bush had delivered his first tentative remarks about the intentions of the coup plotters Monday morning. Bush had carefully -- and, it later seemed, prophetically -- suggested that the putsch might fizzle. "Coups can fail," said Bush. "They can take over at first, and then they run up against the will of the people...
This is the new Hollywood gospel, and its prophet is Jeffrey Katzenberg. In January, Katzenberg, who runs Walt Disney's movie operations, wrote a staff memo that was passed around Hollywood more quickly and urgently than a joint at Woodstock. In this back-to-basics plea, he ripped the notions of the bankable star. "If this were true," he asked, alluding to Batman and The Two Jakes, "then how can one explain what happened to 1990's vehicle for 1989's 'most bankable star,' Jack Nicholson?" He apologized for the studio's big- budget Dick Tracy and disclosed that...
DANNY'S BOY. Last month former Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce agreed to a plea-bargain arrangement on charges that he beat and robbed Darius Barney, a Phoenix transvestite prostitute, after a sex act. Bonaduce must pay up to $3,000 in medical costs for the victim's reconstructive surgery...
...Tampa convictions, which required B.C.C.I. to forfeit $15 million of its money-laundering profits, Blum and former customs commissioner William von Raab elaborated on their earlier descriptions of the Justice Department's Florida case as a law-enforcement debacle. "I was personally | infuriated," Blum said. He argued that the plea bargain gave B.C.C.I. immunity from future prosecutions based on evidence in the case -- a charge that Justice disputes. Von Raab, sporting a yellow handkerchief that drooped flower-like from his breast pocket, called the settlement "a shameless agreement" and "a disaster in terms of the punishment that should have been...