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...Russians have left, and the Soviet Union has disappeared. But the fighting in Karabakh continues, and the death toll rises. The suffering is indiscriminate, with innocent civilians afflicted as often as warriors. Last week, as rockets could be heard falling once again on Stepanakert a few miles away, a small plane landed to evacuate wounded to Yerevan, the Armenian capital. A stretcher bearing a woman in her 50s, her face scarred and swollen, was lifted aboard. She had lost both her legs to a GRAD missile the night before. Her husband, pale and exhausted, said nothing as he bent down...
...victory" speech last night, Brown congratulated rivals Clinton and Paul E. Tsongas because "it is not a time for mean-spiritedness." He spoke briefly, but included praise for his competitors, a call for party unity and, of course, his infamous 1-800 number. The toll-free hotline was also prominently displayed on a banner behind him as well on T-shirts and buttons on sale in the lobby...
...California number is not toll-free, of course. Getting answers to issue-related questions was less grassroots than donating money. But I called. "Thanks for calling the Brown for President headquarters," a recording said...
...talk-show host to vent his throw-the-bums-out spleen. Now that same populist rage is dialing right into the political system -- right into the volatile center of the 1992 presidential race -- and mainstream politicians from Bill Clinton to George Bush are all but cursing the invention of toll-free telephone numbers...
Angry voters use toll-free lines to pump up Jerry Brown and Ross Perot...