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BOSTON--A poll of voters most likely to participate in the Feb. 8 Iowa caucuses found Democrats Richard Gephardt and Michael S. Dukakis in a virtual tie and Republican Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas with a comfortable lead...
...been used for years by meteorologists, geologists and agronomists to view vast, sometimes inaccessible, areas from space. The U.S. ban grew out of Defense Department fears that civilians might uncover sensitive military secrets. But it backfired when Landsat, the sole U.S. commercial imaging satellite system, which once had a virtual monopoly on space-based pictures, felt the heat from foreign competition...
Curiously, the capital has recently shown signs of economic growth while under a virtual siege. Relaxation of rigid socialist controls has let new businesses emerge. Previously shuttered stores have reopened with fresh supplies of furniture, clothing and shoes. People can once again buy and sell prawns on the open market. The arrival of a shipload of Soviet cement late last year set off a modest building boom. "There has been no change in our overall aims," asserts Trade Minister Manuel Aranda da Silva. "But you can say that Frelimo has grown up and is now more mature." That growth will...
...father, who was away most of the time making a career in the military. He was educated in the Soviet Union, embraced Communism for a time, and at one point signed a denunciation calling his father an "enemy of the working class." Later, Soviet authorities made - Chiang a virtual hostage, banishing him to Siberia and the Urals. There he married a young Russian woman named Faina...
Thus ended the so-called war of the embassies, the diplomatic standoff in which the French diplomat and the Iranian interpreter were held for five months as virtual prisoners in their embassies. Only 48 hours before the . exchange, Premier Jacques Chirac's government had won the release of two French hostages in Beirut...