Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Alksnis is a leader of Soyuz, as is a fellow colonel named Nikolai Petrushenko; Shevardnadze contemptuously described the pair last week as "boys . . . with colonels' shoulder stripes" (both are in their 40s; Shevardnadze is 62). They have talked wildly of such things as an alleged CIA plot to unite national-front movements from the Black to the Baltic Seas into a single anti-Soviet confederation. Soyuz claimed credit for Gorbachev's sacking of the country's liberal Interior Minister last month, and brazenly announced that the Foreign Minister was next on its hit list...
...been accused of being a key organizer of the Tiananmen Square protests that the government brutally crushed in June 1989. After the crackdown, Chen went underground with his wife and several friends, including Wang Juntao, 32, a former editor of the defunct Economic Studies Weekly. Late last year the pair topped a secret government wanted list of pro- democracy leaders. Arrested a few months later while trying to escape abroad, Chen and Wang are detained in Qincheng, a maximum-security prison outside Beijing...
...Reebok Sole Trainers that normally retail for $85, at $55. Anne Klein II perfume at $17.95 instead of the usual $32. More than 1.5 million shoppers , have done so since Sawgrass opened its doors in October. "Everybody is looking for bargains these days," says William Cohen, 36, waving a pair of jeans selling at $30 -- half-price -- at the jammed Guess? outlet...
...psychologists are poised to grab a share of perhaps the biggest professional prize: prescribing drugs. This fall a pair of psychologists at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington began selecting and dispensing medications to a handful of patients in an experiment to see if novice prescribers can do the job safely and effectively. The test marks the first time in the field of mental health that non-M.D.s have been permitted to prescribe medication. Last week the American Psychological Association showed its confidence that the experiment will be a success by appointing a study group to explore...
...Peter Zilonis, wearing a red windbreaker and Budweiser hat leaps into action to break up the fight. He separates the men until a uniformed security officer and black-shirted bouncers come along to eject the pair. Zilonis, a former minor league baseball player and a North Cambridge resident, managed the Bow during the mid-eighties...