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...nosed horsemen in leather skirts, waving their fists and rolling their little red eyes. Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name a barbarian czar to coordinate the federal effort. So as to appear calm and in control, Bush flies to Kennebunkport for a week of tennis...
When George Bush was President and Jim Baker was his foreign policy czar, nobody logged more frequent-flyer miles for TIME than J.F.O. ("Jef") McAllister, our State Department correspondent. Accompanying the peripatetic Secretary of State on his shuttle-diplomacy marathons, McAllister quickly mastered the technological rigors of modern journalism -- banging out dispatches on his Toshiba laptop in airplanes, airports, briefing rooms and run-down hotels. He once typed a file while stuck in a broken elevator in Kislovodsk, a spa town in the heartland of Russia...
...with Yeltsin back in command, critics are warning that authoritarianism is looming dangerously on the horizon--some have even begun calling Yeltsin, "Czar Boris...
...Czar Nicholas' Revenge...
...Russian government announced that 75 years after they were shot by Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and three of their children will receive a proper burial. The bones were discovered in a pit outside the town in 1991. Meanwhile, one week after honor guards ended their 69-year watch outside the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, the fate of his embalmed corpse remains undetermined...