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...equipment for his personal use. Schiller denies this, saying he paid for all the equipment he received. But Howard Peterson, president and CEO of U.S. Skiing, also charged last week in a letter to the USOC that "individuals in the USOC have used their position to intimidate and threaten others who comment on the actions of the USOC...
...just last May are now demanding his ouster. The republic's prime minister and foreign minister have quit the president's cabinet, accusing him of dictatorial practices that block democratic and market reform. And tensions in South Ossetia and Adzhar, two Georgian regions where ethnic populations are demanding autonomy, threaten Gamsakhurdia's vision of a unified, independent state. Just one month after the entire Soviet Union rocked with revolution, Gamsakhurdia, 52, has a homegrown revolution brewing. But the main culprit in all this is not antidemocratic conspirators -- it is Gamsakhurdia...
Along with Christianity have come axes, cooking pots, clothing and bedding, but nomadic Penans insist that modern goods do not threaten their way of life. Most Penan hunters still prefer blowpipes to guns, and a group of headmen insists that if Western goods disappeared, their longhouses could get along just fine so long as the forest remained. This is why after years of arrests, imprisonment and fruitless legal efforts to halt the logging, the Penans continue to blockade the timber roads. "If we die," says Nyelik, "we die in the forest. There is no other place...
...kids in bed? The curtains closed? It's time to turn on the computer and start playing some of the hottest electronic games around -- games so hot that they threaten to melt your microprocessor. Welcome to the world of high- tech titillation, where characters perform feats of onscreen electronic eroticism that leave little -- or nothing -- to the imagination...
Most experts, though, believe the threat of atomic war was minimal during the coup and will probably remain so even if the Union dissolves. One reason is that virtually all the U.S.S.R.'s strategic nuclear arms -- the missile- and bomber-borne kinds that threaten other nations -- are in just four republics: Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Kazakhstan...