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Appealing for peace, Gorbachev seemed to take sides with the Moldavians, saying, "We have to give separatists a real fight here." But the violence showed just how tenuous a hold the Kremlin has on its splintering empire. As ethnocentrism sweeps through the land, even minorities as small as the 150,000-strong Gagauz are seeking self-rule. And Russians, who once enjoyed colonial privileges in the outlying Soviet republics, now find themselves on the defensive as nationalism prevails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Moldavia, What's Yours Is Mine | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

With such tenuous support among state DemocratsSilber has little chance of snaring a top partypost, say some political analysts...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Silber May Be Seeking Dem State Party Chair | 11/10/1990 | See Source »

Bush's decision has resulted in a tenuous American alliance with countries that were, until recently, considered terrorist states by the U.S. Very few Americans seem to realize the long-term implications of this action: We are going to war--pointless, expensive, bloody...

Author: By Jonathan E. Morgan, | Title: A Soldier's Story | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

Despite the new concern, the evidence linking Prozac to suicidal behavior is tenuous and relies mostly on anecdotal histories. The most substantial report appeared last February in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In that study, Dr. Martin Teicher, a research psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., documented the cases of six depressed patients who became obsessed with violent suicidal thoughts two to seven weeks after starting treatment with Prozac. Four tried to hurt or kill themselves. The compulsion subsided after the patients went off the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Warnings About a Miracle Drug | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...best--a very ordinary film. Buena Vista's promotional effort, "Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude," certainly does not aid in dispelling such notions. The dark side of operating within the Spielberg creative genre is that for every Jaws and E.T. there exist the possibility of producing a tenuous, insipid film along the lines of Goonies and Explorers, both unqualified disasters...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: What's Giant, Venezuelan, and Introduces Itself To You When You Open a California Coffin? | 7/27/1990 | See Source »

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