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Outsiders want in; they fill midtown's hotels and clot its traffic. Secular pilgrims, they trek to the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center (and to its sibs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Trump Tower and at Lincoln Center). They see a holiday show: the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which will attract a million patrons this year at $25 to $55 a ticket, or another family entertainment (the Big Apple Circus, Shari Lewis' Lamb Chop on Broadway). And they window-shop on Fifth Avenue -- a promenade that remains the city's most bustling theatrical experience...
Until now, Grachev's trump card has been his loyalty to Yeltsin: during the coup attempts of August 1991 and October 1993 it was Grachev's support, however reluctant, that inspired the military to stand behind the President. Yeltsin has consistently repaid Grachev by standing firmly behind his Defense Minister. Now there are signs that Yeltsin may be concluding that Grachev's liabilities outweigh his assets. The possibility that the Defense Minister may be forced to step down has already sparked a fierce debate over who might succeed him. Will Grachev be forced to make an ignominious exit...
...They're setting us on a different level than everyone else," says Beverly M. Wright, the tribal council chair. "Donald Trump has his casinos. Do people say it's going to corrupt his culture because he's making money on this...
...General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade pact, calling it a measure that will boost the U.S. economy. But Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings, of South Carolina, stalled the treaty, saying it will ship thousands of American jobs overseas, notably many in the textile industry in his state. Using a trump card, Hollings insisted on exercising his right to hold the bill in his Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee for 45 days. Despite lobbying by the Clinton Administration, which hoped treaty passage would give it a boost in the polls, fellow Democrat Hollings stuck to his guns. Today he emerged victorious, when...
Give the Bosnian Serbs at least this much: if audacity were the only requirement for winning a war, they would have routed their opponents long ago. But even the most brazen strategists can sometimes trump themselves. And the Serbs did so last week by launching a raid on a United Nations weapons center in an abandoned factory just west of Sarajevo. The Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the depot were taken completely by surprise, not realizing the predawn smash-and-grab had taken place until they spotted the Serbs rolling a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and an anti-aircraft...