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...Vidus, employs 40 people who design and sell labels for products from all over Russia. Revenues exceed $4.5 million a year, which makes Mansky, 28, one of Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting ready to flee. Of course I will vote, but there is not much choice. No matter what one might think of Yeltsin, he's the only...
...enlisted men and women, one lieutenant commander and at least one U.S. civilian were involved in an international drug-trafficking operation directed by Nigerian organized-crime barons. Five sailors have been convicted of drug-smuggling charges and are serving time in Italian prisons or the Navy brig in Rota, Spain. The rest are awaiting trial or further investigation...
...Saudis' problem has been to arrange an abdication that does not look like one, since an overt abdication could be destabilizing. The solution is to send Fahd off to permanent convalescence at his summer palace in Marbella, Spain. When Fahd is out of the country, Abdullah acts as regent. "What we are seeing," says a diplomat, "are the last days of King Fahd." Says another: "You can assume that if he winds up in Marbella, he is not going back to Saudi Arabia. It will be the Saudi way of handling the fact that Fahd is no longer...
...some, age is the advent of the encores. At 70, Russian ballerina MAYA PLISETSKAYA is still dancing (she just performed in New York City; next she's off to Spain). Age has dulled the athleticism that made her one of the Bolshoi's biggest draws (she liked to tap her head with her foot in mid-leap), but she's irrepressible. Plisetskaya told the New York Times, "I still feel the magic. If I have no more interest in dancing, I'll stop...
...Catholic International, a magazine he published briefly toward the end of the 1930s, David Gordon praised Mussolini's Italy and raved that Jewish soldiers were being sent to Spain "to help murder nuns in Lincoln's name." Can this be the loving, lighthearted man who taught Mary Gordon to value reading above all other things? "I am losing my father. He is disappearing," she writes of her researches. But she also finds she is losing herself. She had reached adulthood as a fallen-away Catholic intellectual (the thoughts of such a person are the themes of her novels Final Payments...