Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...underestimated his son's patience. After five years of taping and editing, the Rusks still disagree over the war. But the father Richard allows to emerge from the minutiae of diplomacy is a role model for any boy: modest, confident, quietly effective and loyal to his bosses and his principles. "I won't be around for history's verdict," says Rusk, now 81 and ailing in his Georgia retirement, "and I am perfectly relaxed about...
...nation has never found it easy to absorb them. When Soviet Jews began to pour in last December, experts warned there would not be enough apartments to house them. With the arrival of nearly 50,000 immigrants so far this year, and another 100,000 expected in the next five months, the housing crunch has come...
...those standards the New Kids are heavy hitters. To date they have sold a cumulative and commanding 17 million albums in the U.S. alone and have had five Top Five singles, of which three have made it to No. 1. Step by Step, their new album, went No. 1 in the second week of its release. A new single, Tonight, is on the way. So far, the three collections of New Kids videos have turned over 3.3 million copies, setting a sales record that surpasses even Michael Jackson's. Paperback band bios have occupied...
Milli Vanilli has so far survived the hilarious barbs of Arsenio Hall, + almost unanimous critical disdain and its own supercilious egotism to score a total of five Top Five singles. Even the hotly debated rumor that they don't do their own singing in live performance doesn't diminish their commercial luster. "If I'd heard the first Milli Vanilli record, I would have signed them," says Geffen Records president Ed Rosenblatt. Notes Jeff Gold, a vice president at Warner Bros. Records: "They may not be what I listen to when I go home, but they have good looks...
...Ukrainian nationalist movement needed a Betsy Ross, it certainly found one in Orest Kaledin. On a stroll through Lvov (pop. 860,000), the largest city in the Western Ukraine, the biologist turned flagmaker points to five new yellow-and-blue national banners flapping from the town hall. They are his and his wife's handiwork, says Kaledin with pride. He dreams of designing uniforms and ensigns for a revived Ukrainian army. Pointing out a friend on the street -- a scrawny person of decidedly unmilitary bearing -- he explains confidentially that the young man is destined to become "one of our generals...