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...clues to the future, Wall Street investors now look to Tokyo almost as much as to Washington. The biggest topic of speculation on Wall Street is the possibility that Japan's tighter credit will trigger a major slide in the Tokyo market, which stands at 36,874, up from 13,000 in late 1985. Some Wall Street brokerage firms recently began selling a new product: warrants that allow investors to profit if the Tokyo market falls. But most investors do not fear a crash so much as a long, stubborn decline. If the January mood persists, the long-running bull...
...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...
...officials from around the country began meeting last weekend in Belgrade to discuss and possibly approve the creation of a multiparty system for April elections and an end to the Communist monopoly on power. Opponents of the plan predicted it would produce parties that would foster local nationalism and trigger the breakup of the nation. Jelena Milojevic, head of the Yugoslav Socialist Alliance, vowed that Communist youth organizations would oppose "chauvinistic and separatist groups." Said she, in a statement that could apply to much of the region: "Self-proclaimed leaders blinded by hatred are appearing from the darkness...
Noriega's increasingly bombastic language and his trigger-happy troops may have been indications that events were spinning out of control in Panama, forcing him to extremes. But other evidence suggested that the dictator was losing control of himself: U.S. troops searching his various hideouts found, along with pictures of Adolf Hitler, collections of pornography and sophisticated weapons and more than 50 kilos of cocaine. In one Noriega guesthouse, searchers found a bucket of blood and entrails, which they said may have been used for occult rites to protect him. Was the accused drug trafficker deteriorating into a megalomaniac drug...
...Army had filled the vacuum left by the collapsing Wehrmacht. By the early 1950s, any Kremlin warmonger would have to contend with a Western Europe that was already firmly back on its feet and therefore no pushover, and also with an American doctrine warning that Soviet aggression would trigger nuclear retaliation against the U.S.S.R...