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Last week brought another indirect sign of U.S. sympathies in the election. The International Monetary Fund gave initial approval to a $10.2 billion loan to Russia, benefiting Yeltsin at a time when his government is strapped. The decision had the strong backing of the U.S., which wields powerful influence at...
DEEP IN INTERPLANETARY SPACE, AN irregularly shaped chunk of rock about twice as long as the island of Manhattan is silently speeding along the orbit it has traced for billions of years. It is an asteroid known as 433 Eros, and it is just one of thousands that have been...
A third plane escaped, and the pilot, Brothers cofounder Jose Basulto, claimed the Cubans began harassing the Skymasters as they were flying in international airspace, which begins 12 miles offshore. U.S. search craft spotted oil slicks some 20 miles off Cuba. A grim-faced President Clinton condemned "in the strongest...
For a congressional staff member to use the ties of government service to provide a lucrative, comfortable afterlife "happens all the time,'' Shuster correctly notes. But theirs is a coziness that is drawing new scrutiny in these increasingly self-conscious times in Washington. The watchdog group Common Cause plans this...
In the reverse frisson that operates when a star of one galaxy travels to another, Diane Keaton's visit to the Vermeer exhibition created more of a stir than the First Lady does when she ventures out. Later, my daughter Courtney spotted the actress having dinner at Restaurant Nora but...