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...communist overlord. It is a landmark the historic import of which is exceeded only by the confusion that surrounds the array of parties elbowing one another for a place at the table. On the same day voters choose their new representatives, they will also pass judgment on a draft constitution that dramatically strengthens the power of the President and opens Boris Yeltsin to the charge that he is less interested in building democracy than in consolidating his own power...
...mismanagement by Carey's plundering predecessors, has wrecked the union's finances. The International lost $58 million in 1992. The union is still slow to reveal its books to its own executive board -- nearly six months passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth of the International is roughly $60 million today, down from $154 million in 1991. At the current rate of brotherly rot, the union will be insolvent by 1995 unless Carey seeks and achieves a politically...
Baucus' letter, though it may stiffen the spines of the regulating agencies, probably won't be enough to stop the mine. Noranda and Crown Butte may well get a permit to operate. A draft environmental-impact statement is expected by summer, shepherded by the Forest Service and the Montana State Lands Department, two agencies generally considered to be pro-development. The fact is that the outdated 1872 mining law, which treats the U.S. as if it were an underdeveloped country to be exploited, does not allow the agencies to say no to a permit. They can say only "yes, provided...
Naples Pizza. Located just two blocks away on Wall Street is the hangout of all Yale hangouts. Faculty and students for years have come to Naples in search of slices of pizza and cheap draft beer. The sandwiches and salads are good...
...impetus for the latest round of name-calling is the recently released draft of Russia's new constitution. The document was put together by Yeltsin and his staff, and it shows...