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Even a nation accustomed for some time to meager supplies and long lines has been stunned by the utter disappearance of milk, meat, produce and even bread. Some stores have taken to closing early in the day for lack of anything to sell. To halt worsening shortages, Leningrad took the dramatic step of introducing rationing of key staples last week. Moscow is also debating emergency measures. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev until the end of this week to come up with a plan to halt shortages in major industrial areas. Addressing a meeting of the Moscow City Communist Party...
Zach's parents Stanley and September Toungate have appealed to the school board, but it has refused to halt the confinement, as did a state district court judge. The school's superintendent, Paul Fleming, defends the dress code and the punishment. Zach and his parents may take the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals. If girls are allowed to wear their hair long, they insist, boys should...
...Ayodhya incident was just the latest blow to a government shaken by a series of crises. Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister's ruling coalition lost its majority in the parliament after Singh ordered the arrest of L.K. Advani, a Hindu nationalist who had refused to halt a five-week religious march to Ayodhya to support the construction of the Rama temple. Advani's Bharatiya Janata Party responded by withdrawing its backing from the government, a move intended to provoke Singh's downfall in a vote of confidence scheduled for this week...
...blockade and pressure to work. That, in turn, will require unified support from the American people for the means, as well as the ends, of Bush's policy. The President's inability to clarify how he plans to get Saddam out of Kuwait last week did nothing to halt the confusion. Perhaps he can better explain his objectives to the Americans with the most at stake in the crisis: the troops he will be meeting on a Thanksgiving Day visit to the gulf...
...play. Tense and serious moments are delivered with the same frenetic energy as humorous ones. At one point Bobby, as fed up with Rob's hackneyed moralizing and witless witticisms as we are, goes on a rampage in which he brings the play's quick pace to a grinding halt--at least it reads this way in the text. Yet Rainey delivers the speech with the same monochromatic, sugar-high intensity that characterizes most of Bobby's delivery. The result is an indeterminate dramatic haze that kills moments of potential power...