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...attempted coup to decide their response, some 5,000 demonstrators gathered outside in support of Boris Yeltsin. The timely show of "people power" helped tip the balance, and now the Russian tricolor flutters proudly atop the closed offices of the Perm regional soviet and the city council. Two empty plywood panels are all that identify the former Communist Party headquarters. But if Russian democrats hope to consolidate the victory they won over hard-liners at the barricades of Moscow, they will have to do more than hoist flags and close down provincial outposts of the Communist Party apparat. They must...
...last time I picked up a hammer was in seventh-grade workshop. I invented split-level knock hockey because I couldn't get my plywood to stay even. If my shop teacher hadn't sent me to the library to avoid any major accidents, I might never have ended up an English major at Harvard...
Enlisted women have their own tent and their own latrine. That rare concession to gender does not guarantee much privacy, since most latrines are plywood outhouses with wire screens from the waist...
General Colin Powell complimented the Iraqis last week for their skills of deception. "They're quite good at it," he said. In addition to the ersatz launchers, Iraq has employed mock tanks, airplanes, bunkers and artillery. The preferred materials: plywood, aluminum and fiber glass. Among the Iraqis' possible suppliers was a French company, Lancelin-Barracuda, and an Italian competitor, M.V.M. A U.S. Defense Department official says Baghdad is even hiding missiles in "portable mosques sized to the task of concealment." In addition to deploying decoys, the Iraqis are painting craters onto repaired airfields so allied bombers won't retarget them...
Oakland has been slower than San Francisco to clean up. The 1 1/4-mile section of I-880 that collapsed, killing 42 people at the height of the evening rush hour, is long gone. But all over the city hundreds of small businesses remain boarded up, their plywood storefronts covered with layers of graffiti. Half a dozen residential hotels and more than 1,000 low-income rental units were lost in the quake, creating a severe shortage of affordable housing...