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Gorbachev has been able to demote but not purge from the Communist Party's ruling Politburo Yegor Ligachev, his conservative thorn. Ligachev and his allies, who include former KGB chief Victor Chebrikov, could become even more antagonistic out of dismay at the fate of fellow party traditionalists in the election. None is likely to try to pull off a coup, but it is possible that they could force Gorbachev to water down the reforms...
Accompanied by a two-man television crew and three state vegetable inspectors, Victor Shinkaretsky bursts through the doors of a small family- leased vegetable store just around the corner from the Kremlin. Startled customers watch as he begins rummaging through the beets, potatoes and carrots. "We're checking for nitrates," Shinkaretsky explains, as the inspectors set up their portable laboratory equipment...
...before one goes on to call the U.S. the victor, one should consider whether, in the end, the Cold War has not left this nation with a fatally wounded economic infrastructure--allowing it to walk off the field of the Cold War today perhaps, but only to slowly bleed in relative decline tomorrow...
Providence (21-16-2) meets Maine (29-11) tonight, opening a best-of-three quarterfinal series at Alfond Arena in Orono, Me. The winner faces the Wisconsin-Minnesota victor in the national semifinals next week at St. Paul, Minn...
McKusick also directs the Human Genome Organization (known informally as "Victor's HuGO"), a group formed last September in Montreux, Switzerland, by 42 scientists representing 17 nations. "The U.N. of gene mapping," as McKusick describes it, plans to open three data-collection and -distribution sites, one each in Japan, North America and Europe...