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...early-departure policy had one immediate success: it calmed the revolt in Congress. Whatever doubts they might retain, lawmakers generally welcomed a firm deadline for withdrawal -- and what they took as a sort of declaration of independence from the U.N. and Boutros-Ghali. The new U.S. troops will be under American, not U.N., command, and Oakley will operate as an American, not a U.N., representative. Republicans in particular have long suspected Boutros- Ghali of taking a dictatorial line; they delight in quoting him as once having said U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Somalia "when I say they can come...
...consummate diplomat with a series of crippling crises: economic collapse, political chicanery, ethnic rebellion and even a guerrilla-style insurgency waged by the country's former President, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, whose lust for power remains undampened by the popular coup that deposed him nearly two years ago. The revolt in Abkhazia, where a small minority of ethnic separatists want an independent state, has put the fate of Georgia on the line. In Sukhumi, where he has set up headquarters, Shevardnadze has vowed to keep his nation whole or die trying...
...body of exiled dictator Ferdinand Marcos finally returned to the Philippines for burial, four years after he died and seven years after he was overthrown in a popular revolt backed by the military. The government of Corazon Aquino had resisted a Marcos return, but her successor, President Fidel Ramos, a cousin of the dictator, judged that enough time had passed. Only 7,000 people from Marcos' home province greeted the body on its return; his widow Imelda had predicted 1 million...
...said during an interview with TIME. While in the Kremlin, he confronted one horror story after another of skies blackened by smokestacks, rivers ruined by toxic wastes and fields flooded by ill- conceived dams. "Farmers rebelled against these outrages," he said, "but because of the command system, their revolt was not heard." Then came the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, which "was the final argument. All of us then understood the kind of monster we had created...
...potatoes are proliferating -- their percentage has been constant for the past two decades. It's that the number of people taking up vigorous activity seems to have crested in the mid-'80s, according to, among other surveys, the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. No wonder there is revolt in the air. "The god Narcissus ruled in the '80s," says a middle-aged publicist in Los Angeles, a man who is sensitive about his 15-lb. , gain and would prefer to keep his name to himself. "He was the least powerful and most uninteresting god. In the '90s Narcissus...