Word: knightings
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...defensive, have finally found an audience among a public that increasingly associates perestroika with long lines and empty shops. Faced with mounting criticism and declining popularity, Gorbachev may have decided that he has no choice but to loosen the reins on the KGB and military. Says Amy Knight, a Soviet-affairs analyst at the U.S. Library of Congress: "He is resorting to authoritarian, coercive measures because he is losing his ability to use more legitimate powers...
...visited Gorbachev twice this year, as a potential backer. A day after Frolov's announcement, the youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda charged that Maxwell had recently pulled out of a joint venture with the independent Moscow News and closed the paper's London edition without warning. Even if a white knight comes to Frolov's rescue, it is hard to see how the beleaguered editor can effectively implement all the much needed changes...
Meanwhile, in Atlanta Wahlberg got into a fight with Georgia Tech students, and Jordan Knight reportedly struck a 21-year-old woman...
SCORING: PlayerGMS G A PTS Derek Mills 15 5 4 14 Nick D'Onofrio 15 5 2 12 Jeremy Amen 15 5 0 10 Jason Luzak 14 1 3 5 Brian Enge 15 1 3 5 Peter Cochran 14 1 2 4 Richard Knight 15 1 1 4 Don Daigle 11 1 1 3 Dave Kramer 15 0 3 3 Roger Chapman 12 1 1 3 Nick Gates 14 0 3 3 John Shue 13 1 0 2 J.D. Kosakowski 10 1 0 2 Lenny llkhanoff...
...some outdated p.r. manual, Saddam Hussein went on the airwaves last week in a miscalculated attempt to revise his image and turn up the pressure on his enemies. He should have known better. His crude hypocrisy of fondling children may help convince the Iraqi masses that their self-styled % Knight of the Arab World is not such a bad guy. But it was testimony to his isolation that he believed such a transparent performance would move the West...