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...spots in the U.S.S.R.'s diplomatic service. But when Afghanistan's nonalignment policy began to slip, the Soviet leadership panicked. Three members of the Kremlin inner circle--Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, KGB chief Yuri Andropov and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov--feared that the Afghans would tilt toward the U.S. unless stern "measures" were taken. Late on the night of Dec. 12, ailing Communist Party chairman Leonid Brezhnev called the three to a secret meeting to hear their proposal. To keep the U.S. from installing a friendly regime, they said, Moscow must send in troops. The military operation, Brezhnev was told...
...seeking an extension. "If I think more important work can be done of course, we'll ask for more time," Gorton said. "We're going to work with this deadline in mind." Kean said that, even though the panel has lost "considerable time," he adamantly opposes seeking an extension - unless "we simply couldn't do our job" without one. "My belief is that we will not be doing that.... It's not going to be easy and we're going to be under the gun, but I think we can do it." He added that a "two or three months...
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...Unless they were his perks. As Langley documents, somewhat uncritically, Weill exemplified the superstar CEO, with a double standard that grew with his deals. He bristled at the $30 million golden parachute that Gerald Tsai crafted for himself in selling Primerica to CCC, but at the same time, Weill insisted on buying Primerica's Gulfstream IV jet as part of the deal. Weill is the kind of guy who could finish off a $200 lunch, return to the office and slash 2,000 jobs...
...there are some concerns that units of the elite Republican Guard may have been secretly sent to help defend Basra, contrary to coalition expectations. Nor is time on the British forces' side - according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Basra is running out of fresh water, and unless the city is quickly taken there will be a huge humanitarian crisis in there, exactly the opposite of what the coalition was hoping to show from a town that some thought would be happy to surrender to the anti-Saddam armies...