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Actor Raul Julia, best known as the political prisoner Valentin in the film version of Manuel Puig's novel "Kiss of the Spider Woman,"died today in a Long Island hospital -- a week after suffering a stroke. Julia's career began with Shakespeare and included turns on Broadway (the 1982 musical "Nine") and 18 film roles. Among them: the suave Gomez in two "Addams Family" movies, and assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero...
...didn't come to the United States as people come to professors," said Valentin A. Kovalyov, deputy chair of the Duma and head of the delegation. "We came for equal discussion...
...General Valentin Varennikov, a former Soviet Deputy Defense Minister, was acquitted of charges that he helped try to overthrow the government of Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov was the only one of 12 defendants to refuse an amnesty offered by the Russian parliament earlier this year. The state prosecutor in the trial claimed that Gorbachev may actually have encouraged the plotters by not opposing them vigorously enough, a conclusion Gorbachev called "absurd...
Roger Clemens looks unstoppable in the first two innings. Andre Dawson slams a homerun in the bottom of the second. Otis Nixon and John Valentin each steal a base. The Red Sox even fight off some rocky middle innings and come from behind...
...Governor Valentin Fedorov, a staunch opponent of territorial transfer, argues that giving up the southern Kuriles makes no economic sense. It would, he says, deprive Russia of some of the best fisheries in the Pacific while opening the door for a deluge of Japanese investment that would "once again put us under the Japanese, only this time by peaceful means." For the moment, at least, the nays have it -- but the maneuvering is far from over...