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...partially destroyed parliament building serves as the city's maternity ward, where nurses tend newborn babies by candlelight. A member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which opened a station in Stepanakert three weeks ago, said he fears the city could soon be struck by hunger, and, as the weather warms, by epidemics...
There was a time when Colt's .45 revolver was synonymous with the Wild West. But a decline in military and police orders for quality weapons, foreign competition and a seemingly insatiable public hunger for automatic weapons and cheap handguns combined to stifle the 156-year-old firm...
...actor, who works with The Hunger Project and other causes, stressed the dual importance of performance and public service in his life...
...potentially disastrous. They see an epochal struggle ahead to ground democracy and a free economy in the former Soviet republics, and they want to pull out the stops to help it succeed. Think how dangerous it would be, they advise, if Russian fascists and militarists, * battening on anger and hunger, seized power from Yeltsin and his fellow reformers. Yeltsin himself has warned that "certain countries" only "talk and talk" about helping, while old Communists and new Nazis circle around his government like wolves. Others speak of a "Weimar Russia" waiting for a Slavic Hitler to appear...
...tenor of assistance has to change from the immediate to the long-term. Food and medicine will still be needed, but "the hunger and thirst for technical assistance is much greater," says Richard Armitage, who has been put in charge of American assistance to the former Soviet Union. Russia needs help in creating and solidifying the institutions essential to a stable democracy, from functioning financial operations to an independent judiciary, a coherent parliamentary system and wholesale and retail markets. Virtually none of these pillars of the Western life-style exist in Russia; reformers are starting from scratch...