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...said nothing about April Fools' Day, and one Mir crew took advantage of the oversight. On April 1, 1988, cosmonaut Musa Manarov alerted the ground that he had found a mysterious string of numbers written, inexplicably, on the outside of the station. His call was received by Vladimir Bezyaev, a mission-control radio commentator who had been chatting with the cosmonauts and was in on the joke. Bezyaev played it straight, relaying the news to the rest of the control room. "Mission control completely believed [Manarov]," he says. "They even asked him to film the numbers...
...Mori started off the week in full-on kabuki mode, denying Monday that he'd told a weekend meeting of party elders that he'd resign. The denial, universally deemed mere lame-duck face-saving in advance of upcoming summits with George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, tipped the Japanese markets over into panic mode and sent the Nikkei 500 plunging to lows not seen since 1985, the long-ago days when Japan was an economic juggernaut to be emulated...
...attempt to change the treaty will shake the strategic root and trunk of world peace and security." VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, voicing concerns that U.S. plans for a missile defense program would violate a 1972 nuclear arms agreement...
...Chisinau Moldova's Communist Party scored a surprise comeback in parliamentary elections. Led by Vladimir Voronin, the Communists won nearly 51% of the vote and will command a majority in the legislature. Voronin lost no time in signaling that he would strengthen ties with Russia. The Communist triumph was a bitter setback for Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis, whose centrist coalition won only 13.5% of the vote...
...addition, Russia has begun to warm to its former Cold War allies. One alliance that played a key role during the Cold War was revived last week as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong signed an agreement on strategic cooperation, giving Moscow its strongest ally yet in Southeast Asia...