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The U.S. may hope so, but Yeltsin is increasingly lonely on that side. In spite of Yeltsin's pleas, Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the engineer of the reform train, said he would not remain in a government that was irresponsible enough to spend $500 million it does not have...
The only group whose pleas were unsuccessfulwas HQ magazine, which was denied considerationafter submitting its application late.
Gilland, from his hospital bed, sent wordthrough the woman that the attack on him camesilently and without provocation. For his part,Gilland offered only a few desperate pleas inreturn for the blows he received.
These things we learn in due course: that Vito's sole surviving relative is a small-time crook in Rome; that the dead boy in the cave had been kidnapped by Vito's family and was being held for ransom; that the family's slayers were members of a rival...
A central problem with the Somalia mission was that the U.S. went in saying they had no intention of disarming the warlords, this despite the pleas of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali. When the less competent U.N. forces took over from the initial American force they had to face...