Word: markus
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...when he suggested United might "perish" in the wake of Sept. 11. Goodwin has been replaced by John W. Creighton, former CEO of Weyerhaeuser. DIED. REGINE CAVAGNOUD, 31, world Super-G champion; in Innsbruck, Austria. The French skier died of injuries suffered when she collided with German national coach Markus Anwander during a downhill practice run (see Eulogy). DIED. GRIGORY CHUKHRAI, 80, celebrated Soviet-era filmmaker; in Moscow. A WW II veteran, his major films dealt with war, including Ballad of a Soldier, which won the 1960 Cannes award for best direction. DIED. THOMAS DURANT, 73, assistant director of Massachusetts...
...fought only with nukes, Kalashnikovs and proxies. It was waged through alliances such as asean and NATO, which raised the likely price of conflict and therefore deterred it. It was fought through the battle of ideas, through entities like Encounter magazine and Radio Free Europe. (In his autobiography, Markus Wolf, the former intelligence chief of East Germany, rated RFE as one of the West's most effective tools.) It was fought through economics: imposing higher costs of trade by limiting the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas, for example. It was fought through legislation, such as America...