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...dangling salaries reportedly ranging up to $250,000, the National has gathered a 130-member editorial staff that includes columnists Mike Lupica from the New York Daily News and Dave Kindred from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as editors from the Boston Globe and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Boasts Deford: "We will offer the finest collection of writers ever assembled at one daily...
...Communist Party youth daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, disclosed last week that two senior colonels, both veterans of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, sent a telegram to Gorbachev and Defense Minister Yazov two weeks ago urging them not to use force in Azerbaijan. Military intervention, they warned, would lead to a "complete disruption in relations" with the local people and "trigger the growth of anti-Russian feeling...
...Nazi mobs had encircled the Chancellery, shrieking "Sieg Heil! Heil Hitler!" On the telephone from Berlin, Goring dictated a telegram to Seyss- Inquart in which "the provisional Austrian government" asked Germany to send troops to restore order. On March 12 the Wehrmacht came streaming across the border -- not only unopposed but warmly welcomed by thousands of Austrians who genuinely wanted union with Germany. Next day, Seyss-Inquart issued a decree that announced, "Austria is a province of the German Reich." Hitler returned in triumph to the Vienna where he had once lived as a virtual derelict. Papen described...
...architects of the debacle, Li and Yang could eventually prove liabilities to Deng, and he might have to jettison them. An alternative could be provided by Qiao Shi, an unfamiliar Politburo member, who emerged as a rising star after a telegram from the Supreme Court congratulated him for his support of the military crackdown...
Also yesterday, the Harvard-based Coordinating Committee of China Scholars in the Boston-Cambridge area sent a telegram to President Bush suggesting limited political action. In a tersely worded message, the 11 leading academic experts acknowledged the importance of U.S.-China ties, but suggested granting automatic visa extensions to all Chinese students in the U.S., flying American flags half-mast at embassies in China, and giving "sympathetic consideration" to Chinese requests for political asylum...