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Life aboard Yeltsin's campaign plane has its perks. The Tupolev jet is several cuts above most Aeroflot planes, with a clean interior and flight attendants who actually attend. Dinner on the flight to Perm included caviar on eggs, fresh salads, half a chicken and unlimited Pepsi, tea and coffee. Yeltsin's bodyguards, Makarov pistols dangling in shoulder holsters, bantered with officials and reporters in the aisles. The Soviet reporters passed around the vodka and caught up on sleep. The phone system is so bad that Russian reporters working domestically don't bother to write on laptop computers; they...
Ryzhkov, who was replaced as prime minister in January, thought he had pocketed the military vote when he chose General Boris Gromov as his running mate. An articulate hard-liner, Gromov served as the Soviet commander in Afghanistan before becoming Deputy Interior Minister in December. But even if Rutskoi does win votes from enlisted men and reform-minded Communists, Ryzhkov has earned the support of the military-industrial complex and the party bureaucracy through his attacks on economic "shock therapy" and his defense of the country's "socialist choice." Because Ryzhkov and Gromov are counting so much on local party...
...race has a dark horse: Bakatin, the former Interior Minister and now member of Gorbachev's Security Council. If Yeltsin has the support of radical reformers and Ryzhkov the backing of hard-line generals and party hacks, Bakatin insists that he is an "independent" candidate. Speculation that he is really the Kremlin's man has been so intense, however, that Bakatin felt compelled to note last week that "I've said no to Gorbachev many times." Bakatin shrewdly chose as his running mate Ramazan Abdulatipov, an ethnic Muslim who is chairman of the Russian parliament's Council of Nationalities. Opposition...
...University also charged the government $103,050 for furniture, kitchen utensils, mattresses, pillows and interior decorating for apartments. And under the same grant, Harvard billed the government $13,460 for entertainment activities, such as cocktail and coffee hours. All these charges were recommended for disallowance...
Hollowing Heartland. As the unemployed trekked to coastal, service-based cities like San Francisco and Boston, the nation's midsection began to empty. "There's been a general hollowing out of the interior of the country all the way from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast over to Pascagoula, Miss.," says Calvin Beale, a demographer with the Department of Agriculture...