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...Yeltsin's version of reform. As a first step, most prices are to be freed from government control this week, although the cost of basics like bread, milk, salt, medicine and vodka will still be regulated. The results may be no more satisfactory than those of perestroika because many state-run monopolies, including wholesale and retail suppliers, retain their paralyzing grip on the distribution system. With hyperinflation a real threat, much of the population feels menaced by poverty as well as hunger this winter...
...contends Yaroslavl Deputy Pushkar. "But this is the way the rest of the country has always lived." Olga Ivanova supplements her meager monthly pension of 205 rubles ($2.28 at the current tourist rate) by selling eggs on a Yaroslavl street corner. She vaguely recalls buying smoked ham in a state-run shop six or seven years ago, but the only meat available now sells for 40 rubles (44 cents) for 2 lbs., or 20% of her income, at the free market...
...policy is now German policy," commented Belgrade's state-run TV, repeating the official Serbian accusation that the Germany of today is a reincarnation of Hitler's Third Reich, which, in a new march to conquest, is trying to break up Yugoslavia. "The main problem with recognition," said Wolfgang Biermann, a foreign policy analyst for the Social Democrats in Bonn, "is that it is the Germans who are pushing it. Considering Germany's history in Yugoslavia, the Serbs are convinced that Germany is splitting up their state again. That escalates the conflict." In a number of capitals there was discomfort...
...warehouse, a one-story, 100-by-25-foot wooden structure on O'Brien Highway Rear, belonged to the state-run railroad and was eventually going to be torn down, fire officials said. The building was about "three-quarters" destroyed, according to Michael E. Kuhn, deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department...
...April 14, 1991, armed robbers raided Amsterdam's state-run Van Gogh Museum at night, cut the alarm system and spent 45 minutes picking out 20 works by the Dutch Impressionist. Thanks to a flat tire on the getaway car, the heist was short lived. Among the loot recovered 35 minutes later: The Potato Eaters, which had also been stolen in 1988, from another Dutch museum. Total worth of the take: about $500 million -- assuming that such famous hot potatoes could have been resold...