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Laurie Geltman with Big Clock at Johnny...
After Gorbachev's accession to power, doctrinaire communism went into a six- year tailspin. But the turmoil of recent months has given the cause fresh life. Many of the party's new vanguard deny they want to turn back the clock, and yet the Kremlin has begun targeting for investigation prominent private businessman Artyom Tarasov, a self-made Moscow tycoon...
...high-level delegation from Iraq began meetings with Iranian officials in Tehran Jan. 8, the sessions attracted little notice. After all, at that same moment U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz were preparing to hold their last-minute talks in Geneva, and the clock was ticking toward war. But political analysts in Washington and the Middle East now believe a deal might have been struck at those meetings in the Iranian capital, a deal that last week triggered one of the more mysterious events of the gulf war: the sudden departure for Iran...
...makes sense that we sleep during the day, because we certainly do not sleep at night. The night after my enlightenment at the hands of the Hilles bag checker, I found myself preparing for bed at three o'clock in the morning...
...ahead as planned," predicted Klaus Segbers of Germany's Institute for Science and Policy. But the convulsions will undermine Western confidence in the Soviets as a worthwhile economic and military partner. The rapid improvement in East-West relations depends on a reforming Soviet Union. If Moscow is turning the clock back, the West will find it hard to keep that partnership alive...