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...hideous prospect--that someone inside the CIA was betraying the agency's operations to the KGB. Faced with a disaster of such apocalyptic proportions, the agency might have been expected to turn Langley upside down. To pull out all the stops. To launch a major investigation...
...folks at Sony--the company that brought you the Trinitron television and the Walkman, and will soon launch the PlayStation game player--are newcomers to the $5 billion U.S. video-game business. But it didn't take them long to get into the mtv-blaring, schoolyard-taunting, testosterone-burning spirit of the thing. Hanging in front of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week was a Sony banner that boasted EATS NINTENDO FOR LUNCH--THEN THROWS...
That, in turn, was justification enough for the Croatian government to launch its largest offensive since 1991, sending a total of 7,200 army and police troops into Sector West, as the U.N. calls it, from two sides. After a little more than 30 hours, the government proclaimed success in liberating the road and an adjacent railway line, and within two more days had subdued the last Serb pockets of resistance throughout the sector. The Croats reported a total of 42 dead among their forces and estimated Serb losses at between 350 and 450 men. In a televised address...
...George won't be the only political magazine to launch in September.in the U.S. Last week a group of semifamous conservatives (William Kristol, a Republican strategist and former Dan Quayle adviser; John Podhoretz, son of Commentary editor in chief Norman Podhoretz and a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan; and Fred Barnes of the New Republic and The McLaughlin Group) announced that Rupert Murdoch had agreed to put up $3 million to start the Standard. The weekly journal hopes to be to conservatives what the New Republic at its best was to liberals: a journal of opinion intellectually honest enough...
TIME: Why was it necessary to launch the war on Chechnya? Has the conflict indeed strengthened the Russian state...