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...vacation in the Crimea, the capital showed symptoms of panic. Conservative members of the Politburo were warning that the country could be slipping out of control. Government officials were speculating openly about the possibility of a coup. A rock group climbed the Soviet hit parade with a song whose refrain was "We are anticipating civil war." Arriving home, Gorbachev, looking tanned and vigorous after four weeks on the Black Sea shore, went straight to the Kremlin television studio and accused conservatives and radicals of creating an atmosphere of "despair and uncertainty...
David A. Denney, a State Department spokesperson, said yesterday in a phone interview from Washington that Chinese officials have been warned to "refrain from such activities...
...Independent Councillor Thomas W. Danehy said Duehay should refrain from assessing Walsh or another councillor's record, saying he did not want the council to become an arena for members to pass judgement on each other...
Snap, crackle, pop? Callow youths who hear that riff might mistake it for the opening of a new rap song, but anyone old enough to have endured the 1950s and '60s knows the refrain as the opening of a TV-commercial jingle for Rice Krispies cereal. Now the old standby is getting play once again as part of a popular new record called Tee Vee Toons: The Commercials. The album features such Madison Avenue jingles as Brylcreem's A Little Dab'll Do Ya, Alka- Seltzer's Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz and Noxzema's The Stripper (Take...
...Soviet Union. On one critical issue, the President ruled out any compromise. The U.S. is prepared to abide by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty for seven to ten years after a START agreement is ratified. The Soviets insist that even after that period, the U.S. should continue to refrain from deployment of SDI. Bush decided not to relax U.S. insistence on the ultimate right to install the system. He acted in part to avoid irritating his conservative supporters. But the Soviets say they will not agree to START without continuing constraints...