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...powerful oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky as the flagship of his Media-Most holding, NTV helped Boris Yeltsin win re-election in July 1996 against seemingly impossible odds, and afterward enjoyed preferential treatment. NTV anchors got easy access to Kremlin insiders. Parfyonov, 43, became a star. His documentaries on Russian and Soviet history and culture were educational, entertaining and immensely popular. Namedni's informal style and Parfyonov's sharp tongue attracted a large audience. But all that changed when Putin became President in March 2000. Although Putin had run a media-savvy campaign, NTV enraged the new regime by its support...
During the Cold War, Soviet apparatchiks commonly referred to those Western journalists who naively accepted the Kremlin’s misinformation as “useful idiots.” The phrase could easily be used to characterize people such as Stone, who willfully enable a totalitarian government to subjugate its people and escape even the mildest of rebukes from the international community. Perhaps someday when Castro is gone and Cuba’s Communist archives are made available to the public, his sympathizers in the West will at last recognize the abject folly of their delusion. For the time...
...gentle astronomer John Hagen supervised the design of the Vanguard's rocket, technically far superior to the Soviet boosters. It lurched and blew up on the pad. Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson raged, "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's satellites...
Bush says he'll explore every nonviolent means to prevent war with Iraq. During the Cuban missile crisis 40 years ago, J.F.K. and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev negotiated and compromised. Result: no war. It will be interesting to see whether Bush is a man of his word and follows through on his rhetoric. DAN MORIARTY Newport, Minn...
...showed a weakening of President Hamid Karzai's central government. A bomb attack on a bus in southern Afghanistan killed at least 18 civilians. Afghan authorities blame members of the former Taliban and al-Qaeda for the blast, and possibly a ruthless veteran of Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who seems to be consolidating power among the insurgents. In Kabul, police arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who allegedly planned to blow up the heavily fortified U.S. embassy, which is used by the international peacekeeping force. "The Taliban and al-Qaeda fled to Pakistan," says Abdul Raziq...