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Maniac Mansion (Family Channel). Dad (Joe Flaherty) is an amiably incompetent inventor, his four-year-old son is a hulking six-footer and Uncle Harry is a housefly. From such nonsense a group of SCTV alums have fashioned the looniest, sweetest family comedy of the year...
...Jersey residential builder, Calton Inc., has an antidote: through its "Peace of Mind Guarantee Program" it promises skittish home buyers that if they lose their jobs due to economic conditions within a year of closing, Calton will cover mortgage payments up to $1,500 a month for six months or until the owner returns to work. Says newlywed Wendy Goldberg, a computer instructor who will soon close on a $150,000 home: "The idea of taking all our funds and running them dry to buy a house was very scary. At least this way we'll have a place...
During his nearly six years in power, Gorbachev has zigzagged repeatedly / between right and left, trying to stay in command of a center that he kept moving slowly leftward, toward greater democracy. At the same time he was steadily expanding his own powers, at least on paper, but implicitly pledging to use those powers to force reform on a backward bureaucracy...
...that the rightists had talked Gorbachev into a crackdown. German Sovietologist Nerlich, who was in Moscow in November, heard a particularly unnerving -- and unconfirmed -- story. During a Politburo meeting on Nov. 16, an army-KGB-conservative bloc supposedly presented Gorbachev with an ultimatum that Nerlich summarizes this way: "Within six weeks he had to get things under control in the republics, Moscow and Leningrad or there would be physical ways of removing him." Janis Jurkans, foreign minister of the Latvian republic, tells a different story of a November ultimatum. He said last week that 30 days earlier, hard-liners...
...Cold Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is appealing a six-month prison sentence for his role in Iran-contra, is soliciting donations to help fight his "liberal accusers." He has attached to each letter a dead leaf symbolizing the "winter that . . . freezes my spirit and numbs my heart. As time slips away . . . I desperately need your...