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...warmongers, making him the most visible and so far successful challenger for Kremlin ascendancy. But he is not the only aspirant. Anatoli Chubais, the economic reformer who is the President's chief of staff, has stayed out of the Chechen mess while he cements his own powers as "regent" over all presidential decrees and appointments. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who has the constitutional right to succeed Yeltsin in the event of his incapacity or death, seems to have formed a powerful alliance with Chubais...
...Saudis' problem has been to arrange an abdication that does not look like one, since an overt abdication could be destabilizing. The solution is to send Fahd off to permanent convalescence at his summer palace in Marbella, Spain. When Fahd is out of the country, Abdullah acts as regent. "What we are seeing," says a diplomat, "are the last days of King Fahd." Says another: "You can assume that if he winds up in Marbella, he is not going back to Saudi Arabia. It will be the Saudi way of handling the fact that Fahd is no longer...
...AMERICAN CONSUMERS ARE SO WORried about their jobs and armpit-deep in debt, why do Mont Blanc's five U.S. stores keep running out of their 888 Prince Regent pens, at $5,900 a pop? And why does Chanel have a waiting list for its $2,999 double-breasted tweed dresses for spring, which have yet to reach the stores...
...presidential campaign. Though Wilson serves as president of the 26-member board, until last week he had not attended a regular meeting since 1992. But after he had been kept offstage for much of the summer by throat surgery, he won national attention with his high profile in the regents' vote. With polls showing that two-thirds of Californians and a growing majority of Americans oppose quotas, that could bring Wilson the political equivalent of brand-name identification as an opponent of affirmative action. ''The Governor got his victory, and I'm sure we'll see a campaign commercial shortly...
...trustee of Bryn Mawr College, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Marlboro School of Music, and is a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, Gray is a member of the boards of directors of J.P.Morgan & Co., the Cummings Engine Company,Atlantic Richfield Company and Ameritech...