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...ignore. At home the hallmark of his rule is fear: fear of the secret police, of informers, of the midnight knock at the door that results in mysterious disappearances and often in executions. The penalty for openly speaking ill of him is death. According to Amnesty International, hangings occur on an average of ten to 20 times a month. Appeals for autonomy by rebellious Kurds have been answered with poison gas and forced relocation. Not even presumably loyal army officers are shielded from Saddam's wrath: many died in suspicious helicopter crashes during the gulf...
...later session of the Moscow party committee. In his book Against the Grain, Yeltsin reports that Gorbachev phoned later to offer him the deputy chairmanship of the State Construction Committee, which he accepted. Gorbachev then told him he would permanently be barred from politics. Writes Yeltsin: "It did not occur to him that he had created and put in motion a set of democratic processes under which his word as General Secretary ceased to be the word of a dictator...
Americans can solve this problem only by changing their own outlooks, Bok said. "No lasting positive change can occur without lasting change in the attitudes of the people, and that is where you come in," he told the class...
Tales circulate of Si Newhouse playing supereditor, objecting to the blaze of colors on a proposed magazine cover or grumbling about a choice of stories. Meetings with him can take on the character of interrogation, and they often occur at disquietingly early hours: Newhouse generally starts his office day at 4 a.m. Even the supporters among his employees -- and they are far fewer off the record than on -- describe him as exacting and occasionally fierce. One new editor was sternly rebuked after having lunch at the Four Seasons, not for going to that expensive Manhattan eating gallery but for allowing...
Which does not mean the millennium has arrived. For one thing, an intricate verification procedure remains to be completed. Also, START in some ways seems designed to curb the arms race of the 1980s rather than the one that might occur in the '90s; it makes its greatest reductions in the numbers of ballistic-missile warheads, which have been gradually losing prominence to the newer cruise missiles as both sides modernize their nuclear arsenals. Consequently, the cut in total warheads deployed will not be 50%, as often stated, but 30% to 35%. Under some circumstances, there could be no overall...