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That may prove wishful thinking. Although the Soviet military's bloodletting in the Baltics touched off a 100,000-strong protest march in Moscow and a stream of warnings from abroad, the Kremlin has not backed down. Its armed forces continue to rumble through the tiny republics' streets, seizing buildings and striking threatening attitudes. The Interior and Defense ministries have announced that the national police and the army will begin joint patrols next month in all major cities, apparently including the Baltic capitals. They claimed the move was intended to fight the increase in violent crime, but the heavily armed...
...sight of Soviet troops in the streets of the Baltics poses a chilling worry for the West: Is this the end of the end of the cold war? Pessimists foresee a Soviet Union spinning out of control, splintering into warring ethnic fiefdoms and spewing a stream of refugees across Europe. But most Western analysts believe the future is less perilous. Autocracy might well return to the Soviet Union's political and economic life, or the country could break up. Either will strain East-West relations, but both sides have too much invested in cooperation to put their security at risk...
...nightmares are intensified as they are interlaced with stream-of- consciou sness musings on sex, travels to the U.S. and Europe, a taste of freedom. Despite his forays into the liberal West, returning to China is inevitable for Zhang's semiautobiographical character. Out of China for too long, he says, the Chinese often act insane...
Last week it all worked. After the first raids, U.S. and allied planes pounded targets throughout Kuwait and Iraq around the clock, not so much in waves as in a steady stream. Drawing targets from a 600-page daily computerized assignment book, they were concentrating at week's end on missile sites, command and control units, troop complexes and artillery sites. They also hit Baghdad again before dawn Saturday, knocking out the city's electricity and water and destroying the central telecommunications facility. By Sunday they had flown more than 4,000 sorties (one plane flying one mission). About...
After an eight-month absence from the Harvard Square scene, the landmark Brattle Theatre reopened for business Friday night, drawing a steady stream of moviegoers for four showings at one of the area's only remaining revival movie houses...