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...Here is a suggested contract. This way, it isn't reported to Moscow as an export sale, which avoids certain bureaucratic problems." Then came the clincher: when the deal was completed, the company that had received the development loan would be allowed to go bankrupt, and my companion would collect the "collateral" -- the rare metals -- from the Swiss bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Trade: Arms Trade | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...white population" of South Africa because "in autumn massacre will begin"; said "Latvia will be fully incorporated into Russia"; and called charges that conspirators were planning a coup to install him in the Kremlin "absolutely right." He also admitted "one small hobby": "I do not breed fish or collect stamps. But I have that special thing for border posts let us move those posts out to their old places." Friday: A Russian newspaper reported that a group of Freemasons had kidnapped Zhirinovsky and hacked off his tongue. The story was an April Fool's Day prank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Vladimir Zhirinovsky Beat | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...since the Research Council is a branch of the National Academy of the Sciences,they only collect data for Ph.D.'s in thesciences, a spokesperson for the Research Councilsaid yesterday...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: FAS Report States Inaccuracies | 4/5/1994 | See Source »

...undercounting any hearing AIDS group would deem ridiculous. Serious assays now start at 300; estimates of HIV-positive deaf run from 7,000 to as high as 26,000. But the deaf world's varied demographics and idiosyncratic lines of communication conspire against precision. "We have tried to collect our own statistics," laments Kennedy. "We have tried and failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aids | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...daring bet on Paquin, who played Holly Hunter's charming, willful child in The Piano, made all the difference. And whoever gambled that an 11-year-old New Zealander with no previous acting experience would beat out Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Winona Ryder and Rosie Perez deserved to collect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: I'D Like to Thank My Dog . . . | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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