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Popularly elected he was not, but Mikhail Gorbachev nevertheless swore himself in last week as the first real President the U.S.S.R. has ever had. As the parliamentarians at the third session of the Congress of People's Deputies rose to their feet, Gorbachev walked from his seat to a small table by a red hammer-and-sickle flag. Placing his right hand on a copy of the Soviet constitution, he intoned, "I solemnly swear to serve faithfully the peoples of our country, to strictly abide by the constitution of the U.S.S.R., to guarantee the rights and freedoms of our citizens...
...Attorney's office in June 1988, the Bush Administration has yet to submit his name for Senate confirmation. Lehtinen blames a Judiciary Committee logjam. The Miami Herald made matters worse by revealing details of Lehtinen's personal life. The paper reported on a deposition from his former wife, who swore that before their 1982 separation he hurled a television set across a room, bashed through doors and shoved her around. The Herald also said Lehtinen sprained the arm of his girlfriend, former legislative aide Dolores Zell, by pushing her to the floor. Lehtinen denies both stories...
After almost 70 years as a republic of the U.S.S.R., Azerbaijan seemed to peel off its Soviet trappings almost overnight, turning into a foreign country under occupation by invaders. Enraged Azerbaijanis called for guerrilla warfare and swore to "fight to the last drop of blood" to drive the Soviets out. Almost a third of the republic's 380,000 Communist Party members burned their membership cards. Local government offices and police units ignored Moscow and looked to the ten-month-old Azerbaijani Popular Front for leadership. "If Gorbachev wants a second Afghanistan," shouted Ekhtibar Mamedov, the Front's representative...
Parliament swore in 120 new deputies, only nine of them Communists, under an agreement by various parties and the opposition to replace more than one-third of the 350-member parliament...
...Panama City, where he had taken refuge from invading U.S. troops on Christmas Eve. "We wouldn't do it for Noriega the man," said a Cuban diplomat. "This would be our way of standing up for nonintervention and, frankly, sticking it to the gringos." Officials in Washington, however, swore they would not consent to a transfer of Noriega unless he went much farther away than Cuba, to a country where he would have no chance to continue meddling in Panama...