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...their feet on implementing changes. While other Russian cities, including Moscow, could barter their industrial products for farm produce, St. Petersburg, with 72% of its industrial output devoted to military hardware, had nothing to trade. Observed a city tourist guide bitterly: "You can't buy a chicken with a tank...
...reach even a relatively few citizens within the oppressed land and serve as a beacon of freedom. During the failed Soviet coup in August, as key state news organs were being taken over by supporters of coup leaders, Russian President Boris Yeltsin showed himself in public atop a tank to rally a crowd nearby -- and a far larger one throughout his nation. He knew that CNN might still be seen by about 100,000 Muscovites and thousands of residents in other cities, a tiny percentage of the population but enough to spread word of mouth that the battle for freedom...
Some industrial leaders are underwhelmed by the Administration's helping hand. "It is so little, so wimpy," complains Andrew Grove, president of the semiconductor giant Intel. The Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, proposes that Washington create a new federal science-and-technology agency that would coordinate the government's widely scattered $76 billion annual investment in R. and D. and make industry a partner at every level. "What we have now," says Hudson fellow Robert Costello, a former Pentagon official, "is a flea going up against an elephant, but the flea is growing...
...Beatty is "ecstatic" about becoming a father and has even embraced the Lamaze method (the child is due in three weeks). Bening burbles that Beatty will be "an attentive, caring father." He enjoys the tabloid stories his new domesticity has inspired: "I've invented a birthing tank, we've enrolled our daughter in an English boarding school, I've been visiting sick babies...
Five journalists spent a full year researching the study for CPI, a non-profit, Washington think tank that conducts investigative journalism projects, according to Epstein...