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BANNED. RECORDED MUSIC AT PUBLIC EVENTS; by Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov; in Ashgabat. Niyazov, the former Soviet republic's famously autocratic leader?he has named the months of January and April after himself and his mother?said the decree was necessary to stem the tide of foreign influence in Turkmenistan. This follows his similar outlawing of opera and ballet in 2001 (currently, much of the music broadcast on Turkmenistan's airwaves are Niyazov's own words set to music). "Don't kill our talents by lip synching," he warned his cabinet. "Create our new culture...
...Oscar nod in 1995; in a car accident; in Mendocino County, California. Ranft also did voice-over work on many of his films, most famously as Heimlich, the corpulent Teutonic caterpillar in A Bug's Life in 1998. DIED. ALEXANDER GOMELSKY, 77, diminutive, commanding basketball coach from the former Soviet Union, who built the team that gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport in 1972; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't present for his team's most famous win as he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect...
DIED. ALEXANDER GOMELSKY, 77, diminutive, commanding basketball coach from the former Soviet Union who built the team that in 1972 gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport; of cancer; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't at his team's most famous win because he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich Games...
...bedroom temporary structures with roofs that are sometimes slate-gray, sometimes red. Laid out in neat cul-de-sacs, the government is putting down turf for the gardens. The government doesn't want the settlers to feel disregarded, like the new immigrants who came from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union during the 1990s, who were initially housed in rotten caravans like those used as temporary offices on construction sites...
...bringing democracy to societies that have never known it is the best strategy for making Americans safer. Rice has never been patient: as an aide to Brent Scowcroft in the first Bush Administration, she chafed at Scowcroft's cautious steps to encourage democratization in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But the East European model can't easily be replicated in the Islamic world. From the Palestinian territories to Pakistan--and even in Iraq--holding free elections now would probably produce governments that are even less amenable to the U.S.'s overriding goal of stamping out Islamic radicalism...