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Pugo was a Latvian who had been the KGB chief in Riga in the early '80s. He knew that Gorbachev believed all nationalities in the U.S.S.R. should be united by Soviet patriotism. In his conversations with Gorbachev he evoked this sentiment repeatedly, in effect offering himself as an example of a good Balt as opposed to ungrateful, unreasonable troublemakers like Vytautas Landsbergis, the brave but reckless president of Lithuania...
...became too powerful. But after political parties were legalized two years ago, the Islamic Salvation Front won an overwhelming majority in the June 1990 municipal elections, the first multiparty vote since Algeria gained independence from France in 1962. Then the gulf war sparked a fresh burst of anti-Western sentiment. If the fundamentalists ever come to power, they vow to outlaw alcohol, segregate the sexes and impose Shari'a, creating a society dramatically different from the socialist state built more than three decades ago by nationalist revolutionaries...
Some of this burgeoning antiscience sentiment springs from the well-meaning but naive "back to nature" wing of the environmental movement, some from skillful manipulation by demagogues and modern-day Luddites. And some is misdirected; science is often blamed for the misdeeds of industry and government...
Quayle is far from the first politician to mine this populist bedrock of antilawyer sentiment. Jimmy Carter attacked the legal profession for providing unequal standards of justice for the rich and the poor. Quayle's emphasis was not justice but competitiveness. By framing the debate in these terms, he raised a series of provocative questions about the legal profession's role in national economic life...
...aging cyclists a smoother ride. Last year Specialized introduced Air Lock, a self-sealing tire that eliminates fear of flats. Still trying to grow fast enough to stay ahead of the big boys, pioneer Sinyard drives his troops with the company slogan "Innovate or Die!" That's a fitting sentiment in an industry whose forebears included Wilbur and Orville Wright...