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Soviet leaders could not have said it better. Indeed, the returning emigres put a fine cap on the public relations success that the Kremlin scored last month when it allowed Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov to return to Moscow after seven years of internal exile in the city of Gorky. The Soviets lost little time in trumpeting the prodigals' homecoming. Their arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport was prominently shown on the nightly TV news program Vremya. The TASS news agency gravely intoned, "Many former Soviet citizens, duped by Western propaganda into leaving for capitalist countries, have been allowed to return...
...another two months, at which point he is on his own. Patients also have to pay at least 20% of their doctor bills, which often run into many thousands of dollars. About 800,000 of the 28 million Medicare patients every year face bills higher than Bowen's proposed cap of $2,000. Some of them have private "medigap" insurance, but it is often inadequate...
...minutes before the expected adjournment of last week's city council meeting in Mount Pleasant, Iowa (pop. 7,300), a man in a parka and camouflage hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...
...Wright would like to put on the mantle of the great Texas Speakers: John Nance Garner and Sam Rayburn. His legislative gusto and keen political acumen may help him achieve that end. But while his reputation is likely to grow on Cap itol Hill, he may find it difficult to achieve the public stature of O'Neill, who in the Reagan years became the nation's most visible Democrat. With Democrats again in charge of the Senate and a presidential campaign just revving up, Wright will have many a rival for that role...