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The topic is discussed constantly in Moscow these days, for clearly understandable reasons. The Soviet party leader and President, 73, who is believed to be suffering from emphysema, has been absent from public view for about a month. Soviet television last showed an apparently frail Chernenko on Dec. 27, handing...
The renewed violence hardened attitudes on both sides toward Pisani's independence plan. The proposal is an attempt to forge a compromise between two groups: the Kanaks, who make up a minority (42.5%) of the population of 145,000, and the caldoches and Asian and South Pacific immigrants, who are...
Fair enough; he did bring Cambridge's medieval curriculum into the 19th century to suit his taste for math and the sciences. Nor was that all. Albert initiated the Crystal Palace exhibition of modern industry, as of 1851. He fought to abolish dueling. He promoted the Christmas tree. He composed...
Lightner, then 33, a divorced real estate agent with two other children, heard that judgment as she was on her way to a dinner with friends on the eve of her daughter's funeral. She was still furious when she joined them in a cocktail lounge as they waited for...
President Konstantin Chernenko, 73, was conspicuously absent from the funeral ceremonies; his doctors had apparently advised him to stay out of the cold. Later in the week he made an appearance at a Kremlin awards ceremony. In his absence Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, and Romanov, the most likely candidates...