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MOSCOW--Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other top leaders yesterday in a quick-paced Kremlin shake-up that brought Gorbachev closer to assuming a new, more powerful presidency...
...BOSS? Nevertheless, Bush and Dukakis have developed into better TV performers than one might have expected. The Vice President still steps on too many of his own applause lines, and cannot shake a penchant for bloopers (last week's premature observance of Pearl Harbor day). But his very awkwardness has become a sign of sincerity, and anger becomes him -- woundedly defending, for instance, his reference to some of his grandchildren as "little brown ones." If Bob Newhart took assertiveness training, he might turn out to be George Bush...
...soft drinks. As the afternoon sun beat down on the Baltic port, 3,000 men gathered to sing the Polish national anthem. Then the gates of the shipyard swung open and the throng poured into the streets, marking the beginning of the end of the worst labor unrest to shake Poland since...
...election. On June 10, 1987, while Chun and Roh stood hand in hand in Seoul's Chamshil Gymnasium, accepting the applause of D.J.P. supporters at a sham convention to nominate the party's presidential candidate for the bogus election that would follow, antiregime students planned demonstrations that were to shake the country for the next two weeks...
...capture the heavily defended airport. Within two days government reinforcements closed in, and Soviet aircraft went to work. After three days of fighting, the mujahedin withdrew; according to TASS, twelve Afghan troops and 173 insurgents died (the latter figure possibly includes civilian casualties). The Kunduz affair apparently triggered a shake-up in the Afghan military. TASS reported that Najibullah had appointed a new Defense Minister and army chief of staff...