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When it came to forging Soviet power, Joseph Stalin and his successors more than fulfilled their plan. Now Boris Yeltsin and, presumably, his successors have to undo it. The country simply cannot afford such oversize armed forces, and the civilian economy desperately needs the money, talent and productive power locked inside the military-industrial complex. But demobilizing on such a scale poses an especially Herculean challenge to a country that barely has a functioning economy and has no national consensus on how cutting down the troops, the arsenal and the production lines ought to occur...
...audience, however, watched the drama unfold and braced for the repercussions. The great churches of Eastern Orthodoxy were silently dismayed. The Vatican looked on with alarm, having vowed that Catholicism would never accept women for ordination. The decision in London sealed the fate of a 22-year effort to undo King Henry's legacy and reunite the Anglican and Catholic churches. "The problem of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood," declared a Vatican spokesman, "touches the very nature of the sacrament of priestly orders. This decision by the Anglican Communion constitutes a new and grave obstacle...
...responsible for the disaster at GM. That distinction belongs to Roger B. Smith, Stempel's predecessor as chairman, made infamous in the film Roger & Me. As CEO from 1981 to 1990, Smith designed and executed the strategy that has impoverished the industrial giant. Stempel was laboring to undo the damage when GM's board forced him to fall on his sword after little more than two years on the job. By week's end the directors reportedly began moving to give Smith a final shove as well...
Well the law comes in...we're trying to undo the adoptions at this point and create a situation that's in the best interest of the children. This is a tough case for me because Woody Allen is a real hero and I knew him. I still know him and I still admire him as a filmmaker, but I don't admire him as a person...
...long-simmering dispute over Cyprus and reach a rapprochement with Turkey. He keeps hinting that if he budges on the Macedonian question, extreme nationalists in the Greek Parliament -- where he has only a two-vote majority -- will bring down his government and replace it with one that will undo his welcome diplomatic initiatives...