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...confrontation in Vilnius began to recall events in Hungary in 1956, when the Soviet army moved against a restive population under cover of another Middle East flare-up, the Suez crisis. After a week-long show of force in which armored convoys roamed the city and 1,000 paratroopers secured key buildings, Lithuanians started to form makeshift antitank barricades outside the parliament building...
...leaders of FOP, a week-long outdoor camping expedition held each fall before Orientaion Week, said that the move to gender neutrality was in line with the organization's overall philosophy of equality...
VOICE OF THE PLANET (TBS, Oct. 15-19, 8:05 p.m. EDT). William Shatner plays an author who talks with the spirit of Earth (the voice of Faye Dunaway) about the planet's ecological problems. Ted Turner's environmental passion takes an odd mystical turn in this week-long series...
Cheney blew up after reading on-the-record comments that Dugan, in office only 79 days, made to Washington Post and Los Angeles Times correspondents accompanying him on a week-long trip through the Middle East. Dugan, a West Point graduate, talked in considerable detail about classified operational plans, including the use of Saudi bases for American B-52 flights in wartime and training routines for the supersecret F-117A Stealth fighters. In comments deeply distressing to America's allies, Dugan advocated bombing Iraqi cities --including downtown Baghdad--and said, "I don't expect to be concerned" about political constraints...
...After a week-long diplomatic gavotte over protocol, representatives of the four factions in Cambodia's civil war were all present in Jakarta last weekend. On hand were Prime Minister Hun Sen and leaders of two of the three guerrilla armies fighting to overthrow him: Son Sann and Khieu Samphan of the infamous Khmer Rouge. The third, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, pleaded a last- minute illness and sent a stand...