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There was only one problem: Jakes reneged on his agreement with Gorbachev. That extraordinary double cross began the unraveling of Jakes's two-year rule. Through a variety of sources, TIME has pieced together an account of the final days of the repressive Jakes regime. It is not a sympathetic tale; in the end, Jakes had only his own poor judgment, panic and stubbornness to blame...
Jakes's humiliation within the party began on July 17, when a videocassette circulated among rank-and-file Communists that showed Jakes berating an assembly of provincial party chiefs for failing to implement his directives. With characteristic ineloquence, he scolded his underlings for leaving him "standing like a lonely stake in a fence." Says a Prague journalist: "Jakes was turning into a party joke...
...down his inventory of offers, the President at first seemed nervous but began to sound more confident and relaxed, as he promoted everything from an international conference next year on global warming to an increased exchange of college students and a joint endorsement of the idea of holding the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Echoing a long-standing U.S. complaint about the Soviets, he urged them to publish information on their military-force structure, budget and weapons production. He handed Gorbachev a list of possibilities for cooperation between the two nations, including advice on such classically capitalist institutions...
...excesses of the British press, has his doubts: "Who will decide when a right to reply is justified or when there can be an invasion of privacy? The newspapers will." Indeed, the day after the code was signed the Sun was back on the street with a story that began, "Sex-mad Barbara Williams has ditched her toy boy hubby...
Lepine, an unemployed man with a history of academic setbacks, apparently ushered male students from the room, yelled "You're all a bunch of feminists" and began shooting at remaining prisoners, the Associated Press reported. Besides the 14 dead, Lepine wounded nine women and four men before killing himself...