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...demanding work there can be. Reporter Yuri Zarakhovich, who had spent the previous week vacationing in Italy after covering the siege of Sukhumi, in Georgia, returned Oct. 3 to find Moscow plunged into bitter fighting. He stopped off at home long enough to catch up on the TV coverage, then headed for the city center, where armed clashes outside the Ostankino television center cut off the broadcast. Correspondent Sally Donnelly, who had recently arrived from Los Angeles to begin a tour of duty in Moscow, was in the midst of a leisurely get-acquainted drive around the capital when...
Boris Yeltsin shuffled two conservative officials, Security Council Secretary Yuri Skokov and Deputy Prime Minister Georgi Khizha, out of their jobs to make way for reform-minded allies...
...WILL AIR A SPECIAL ON THE KGB ALLEGING that YURI ANDROPOV, when he was the Soviet spy chief, knew where the body of Adolf Hitler was buried. Excerpts from a 1970 Andropov memo: "In Feb. 1946 in the city of Magdeburg ((G.D.R.)) . . . the bodies of Hitler, Eva Braun, Goebbels, his wife and children were buried . . . I would consider it expedient to remove the remains and destroy them by cremation...
...accounts have severely been trimmed, radically changing the lives of many salarymen. The Ginza in Tokyo once sported 4,000 clubs where businessmen passed the late hours drinking, eating and chatting with young hostesses. Several hundred clubs have been forced to close, and many more are up for sale. Yuri Hirota, mama-san at the Club 48, used to keep an employee at the phone all night doing nothing but summoning hard-to-get taxis. Now cabs can be hailed by stepping out the door, but penny-pinching customers prefer to take trains -- and since the last ones leave...
Yeltsin has already tried to outmaneuver the parliament by setting up extragovernmental agencies that are answerable only to the President. Yet even Yeltsin's democratic supporters were concerned when he established a new security council to oversee defense, security, police and foreign-policy issues, with Yuri Skokov, an elusive apparatchik from the military-industrial sector, as chief of staff. It reminds too many people of the party's old secret Politburo. Yeltsin has also set up special commissions that report to him personally to deal with the agricultural crisis and the growing crime rate. Such moves have prompted the conservative...