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Analysts wonder whether Gorbachev has lost his nerve or returned to his true roots. Says Yuri Shchekochikhin, a reform member of parliament: "He should understand that they have already made a dictator out of him. He has refused to put down the military-industrial complex, and his popularity has fallen throughout the country. He should make his final choice. Either he is an imperialist or a democrat...
...Yuri Nauman, a representative of the Soviet Defense Ministry, told a news conference today in Vilnius that soldiers would not try to seize the Lithuanian parliament building, headquarters of the government that declared independence in March...
These are the public signs of the rise of the right, symptoms of the approaching dictatorship Shevardnadze warned against. Only a year ago, the liberal Interregional Group of Deputies, led by maverick Boris Yeltsin, Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov and crusading historian Yuri Afanasyev and claiming more than 300 members, held the parliamentary center stage. The group called a meeting on the eve of this Congress session and fewer than 90 members turned up. Setting the pace now is the bloc of about 470 conservative Deputies calling themselves Soyuz, or Union, and dedicated to preventing the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
...spectacle has been closely watched at Smolny Institute, headquarters of the deposed Communist Party. Ideology secretary Yuri Belov criticizes the radicals for "repeating our mistakes" and claims that they have created a "wild and barbaric" multiparty system. Despite the Communists' disastrous showing in local elections, Belov believes the party has the only effective organizational structure to prevent the city -- and nation -- from plunging into anarchy. The party, for example, has carefully maintained its ties to Leningrad's powerful network of military factories...
...caught between two beautiful Soviet witches. Evil, gorgeous Darya can dematerialize herself and drive men mad with multiple orgasms. She can also fox computer memories and detonate nuclear warheads. Good, gorgeous Valentina uses the power of Jesus for psychic healing. Hammond's problem is to keep sickly General Secretary Yuri Andropov alive until Mikhail Gorbachev is able to take over. This reader's problem is that he doesn't believe a word...