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...candor goes well beyond the public media. Earlier this year Boris Yeltsin, the Gorbachev-appointed party boss for Moscow, surprised a meeting of propagandists with a blistering denunciation of the past administration of the city. Yeltsin described Moscow's well-known but seldom mentioned urban woes in painful detail. A million Muscovites still live in communal apartments where they share cooking and toilet facilities with other families, Yeltsin pointed out, while in the past decade the city has slipped from second place in the Soviet Union to 58th in new-housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished...
...mirrors were found lying in water in the basement. Expensive stemware had been left in an oven. "It broke my heart," said Auctioneer Alan Erlichman. "Opulence and waste . . . It's a sacrilege." In fact, though Mrs. Marcos had stuffed the house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take a set of suites at the Waldorf-Astoria. As yet another cushion in the disco at East 66th Street points out, "Good girls go to heaven...
...zero. Within six months (Bolivian drug production) will be back to normal." That gloomy forecast about "Operation Blast Furnace" was offered last week by James Mills, 54, a veteran investigative reporter who has spent the past six years probing the shadowy world of international drug dealing and the seldom effective efforts of U.S. authorities to cope with it. Mills, author of the newly published The Underground Empire (Doubleday; 1,165 pages; $22.95), was in Washington to promote his book and appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Task Force on International Narcotics Control...
...alternative to the "Jewish banks." By remaining ahistorical, MOMA has abetted a kind of pernicious boutiquism: as beautiful as the wallets and postcards and fabrics and jewelry are, the show occasionally takes on the knickknacky aspect of an upscale mall. The distinction between museum shop and museum exhibit has seldom been blurrier...
Some of that evidence has been provided by Cardiologist Jeffrey Isner of the New England Medical Center in Boston, who suspects that heart damage from cocaine occurs more often than most specialists believe, partly because doctors seldom ask heart patients if they have used drugs. "There are still superb cardiologists," says Isner, "who are surprised to find out that cocaine can cause a lethal cardiac event." In a paper published last October in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, Isner reported on seven people, ages 20 to 37, who used cocaine shortly before suffering apparent heart attacks...