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Certainly Yeltsin has had health problems in the past. When Gorbachev had him ousted as Moscow party boss in 1987, he suffered something resembling a nervous breakdown. In 1990, when his aircraft made a bone-rattling landing in Spain, he sustained a serious back injury, for which he still takes medication. A host of other ailments, ranging from bad colds to kidney disease, are regularly said to plague him. But the most widely whispered diagnosis is cirrhosis of the liver, a condition stemming from chronic abuse of alcohol...
...Serb warlords from the areas they now control or to open the way for former Muslim residents to return. The U.S. and its allies are still unwilling to use force, despite the apparent success of their ultimatum to halt the shelling of Sarajevo and their attack on four Serbian aircraft earlier this month. Moscow is pushing the Serbs, but it may not be willing to shove. "I have carrots for everybody," said Russia's Churkin last week. "I don't use sticks." At best, the Bosnians may someday get back half of their country. They will also have lost half...
When we finally landed in Poland, an announcement came through the cabin, "We will be exiting from the back of the aircraft...
...eruption last week of a high-stakes bidding war for control of Grumman, - the military-aircraft manufacturer, looked like a good deal for nearly everyone involved. Two defense giants, Martin Marietta and Northrop, said they were willing to pay some $2 billion to buy the company, based on Long Island, New York. Whichever bidder prevails, a merger would preserve Grumman's expertise in developing electronics to update aging aircraft. It should also preserve defense jobs at the venerable fighter-plane manufacturer, whose tradition dates back to the days of the World War II F6F Hellcat...
...world's busiest international airport, London's Heathrow, came under | attack by mortar fire on two consecutive days. No one was hurt and no aircraft were damaged in the shellings. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attacks...