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...independent nations. Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan, favors a confederation, to be called the Free Union of Sovereign Republics, so loose that it would have no central parliament or Cabinet of Ministers at all. Moscow would retain responsibility for only a handful of functions, including border protection, communications, interrepublic transport, and carrying out a joint foreign policy that would be formed in consultation with the republics. About the only resemblance that this creation would bear to the present Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that the Cyrillic initials of its Russian name would be the same: C.C.C.P...
During the Persian Gulf war, women distinguished themselves in the cockpits of helicopters, midair refueling tankers and the lumbering C-141 transport jets that ferried troops across enemy lines. Their performance and that of all the 35,000 women who served in the gulf has generated support in Congress and public opinion for broadening the role of females in the military. Last week in a landmark move the Senate voted overwhelmingly to overturn a 43-year-old law that bars women from flying combat missions. Said Delaware Senator William Roth, who co-sponsored the amendment with Senator Edward Kennedy...
...Seven said they would provide technical assistance in developing the Soviet transport network, legal and banking systems, energy resources and food production. They also offered to help convert Soviet military industries, which, according to some estimates, still account for about 20% of the gross national product, to civilian production. The G-7 chairman -- Major until the end of the year, then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl -- will visit the U.S.S.R. "to keep in close touch" with the progress of reforms...
...grande vitesse). Since the TGVs first went into operation between Paris and Lyons in 1981, cutting travel time in half (to two hours for the 290-mile trip) by averaging 168 m.p.h., they have carried 140 million passengers without accident -- which the French claim is a record for a transport system...
Only a few old functionaries have prospered since unification. Hartmut Lehmann, a veteran engineer with the Transport Ministry, made plans in 1989 to start a construction business in Hungary where, he says, "capitalist trends had already begun." Unification changed his mind: he stayed at home to found Economy & Market, a monthly journal aimed at eastern Germany's new entrepreneurs, and a construction firm with 200 workers. He recently bought the old East German trade-union newspaper Tribune for a mere $85,000, converted it into a nonpolitical daily and moved to make it more efficient and profitable by replacing...