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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...first came to the Foreign Ministry's top job in 1974 as the coalition partner of Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. But in 1982 he broke ranks with Schmidt over economic policy, making it possible for Kohl to become Chancellor. In return, Genscher got to keep his post. In early 1987 Genscher became the first major Western diplomat to urge that Gorbachev be taken "at his word," a position that put him at odds not only with Kohl but also with the Reagan Administration. Last year Genscher persuaded a reluctant Kohl to back him in blocking NATO's plans...
...prefers to be called a gay writer. "Capote was a writer who happened to be gay; I am a gay writer," he insists. In fact, he has based his career on it, a high-stakes gamble that has worked. All gay writing can be labeled pre-AIDS or post-AIDS, and White's is an exemplar of the latter. His most recent short stories, three of which are collected in a book called The Darker Proof, deal specifically with the AIDS crisis...
Anyone for a game of musical chairs? Shortly after Vladimir Ivashko, 58, was elected chairman of the Ukrainian parliament last month, he stepped down as first secretary of the republic's Communist Party. Then, two weeks ago, he abruptly resigned from his post in Kiev and won the key job of deputy to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
Ivashko has been described in the unofficial Ukrainian press as looking more like "a balding accountant in a collective farm than a man who manages people's destinies" -- but appearances are obviously deceiving. When Ukrainian party boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky, a Brezhnev-era holdover, refused to be dislodged from his post, Moscow eased Ivashko, an ethnic Ukrainian, into the job of second secretary in 1988. Within a year Ivashko had replaced Shcherbitsky...
...luminaries are what Washington Post columnist Judy Mann calls the "fringe ministers." First there is Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. He held massive rallies in Washington, the minor theme of which was the crucifixion of Barry by white racist America; the major theme was the crucifixion of black America by same. His message, the purest of race hatred, was attended by Barry (and wife and young son) and met with wild enthusiasm by a crowd...