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With these signs that the West would not take sides with Lithuania, an antiblockade commission was set up in Vilnius to seek ways around the two- week-old oil-and-gas embargo ordered by Gorbachev. It was also exploring possible food-for-oil swaps. But with the Kremlin in control of the railroads, such schemes were unlikely to break Moscow's squeeze...
Baseball is equally absurd. The sport has been clanging its cowbell for almost 100 years, and a brainwashed American herd still shells out cash every day to get into the pasture. It's time to wake up and start hurling the week-old tenderloin...
...emerged from 2 1/2 days of marathon meetings, including nearly four hours with a visibly weary Gorbachev, they had accomplished a remarkable amount. Not only had they cleared many of the hurdles blocking a treaty to decrease strategic weapons but the Soviets came close to agreeing with Bush's week-old proposal to cut back troops in Europe...
...people marched peacefully through central Sofia, chanting "Democracy!" and "Free elections!" and demanding that Todor Zhivkov, the autocratic hard-liner who had been ousted only a week earlier after 35 years in power, be put on trial. Although the unthinkable has become a daily happening in Eastern Europe, there was still something astonishing in the sight of street demonstrations in this quiescent land. The marches even had the blessing of the week-old reformist government of Petar Mladenov, 53, which has been moving rapidly to harness the country's desire for change. For the first time ever, Bulgarians watched live...
...saleswoman. Her stepfather sold women's apparel. Karan studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, then worked as an assistant to the legendary Anne Klein. When Klein died in 1974, Karan was named her successor. At that moment she was the 26-year-old mother of a week-old baby...