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...Interior Ministry has accepted New Forum'sapplication for registration as a legal entity andwill decide in three months whether to recognizethe pro-democracy group, outlawed in September buttolerated of late...
...campaign and in some of his presidential statements earlier this year, Bush accepted the proposition that the time to act is now. But the Commerce and Interior departments have waged constant guerrilla warfare against any effort to make good on the President's prior commitments. Meanwhile, the President's chief of staff John Sununu has taken to questioning aspects of the greenhouse theory. There is room for debate over the exact magnitude of climate change that will result from CO2 emissions, but no respectable scientist denies that if humanity keeps pouring gases into the atmosphere, the earth will heat...
...these big names are Johnny-come-latelies. Following the tradition of conservation-minded singers like Woody Guthrie, Oliver, 41, and Waldeck, 32, have been spreading their message on the concert trail for more than a decade -- all through the Reagan years, when environmentalism was on the defensive and Interior Secretary James Watt seemed to be trying to stamp out the movement single- handed...
...Yeltsin listened glumly, Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin told stunned members of the Supreme Soviet about how one night last month their colleague showed up dripping wet at a police outpost in the bosky Moscow suburb of Uspensky. Yeltsin claimed that after being dropped off at an intersection in Uspensky by his driver, a gang of men grabbed him, pulled a bag over his head, hustled him into a car and raced wildly around before tossing him off a bridge into the Moscow River. He swam 300 yds. to shore, Yeltsin said, then rested briefly and went to authorities...
Yeltsin replied lamely that "I never made a written statement" about the episode, but he did not bother denying the Interior Minister's account of his oral one. At another point he said he had been "joking" in his story to police. Moscow gossips speculated that the man of the people might also be a man of the bottle who had been on his way to bestow the roses -- and perhaps other attentions -- on one of his more ardent female supporters. Said a Soviet journalist: "He started out like Huey Long and he's ending up like Gary Hart...