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Bloody Sunday, Jan. 13, when Soviet soldiers killed unarmed civilians in Lithuania, is often cited as proof that Gorbachev has already thrown in with the ultraconservatives. Actually, in the aftermath of the massacre, he showed his determination to preserve an equilibrium between right and left, between centrifugal and centripetal forces. If the hard-liners had really had their way in Vilnius, the night of horror would have stretched into a week, a month, perhaps a new era. Vytautas Landsbergis would now be dead, in jail or, if he were extremely lucky, back to teaching music. Instead he remains President...
...case currently before the Supreme Court, Sharon Russell, a 335-lb. nursing student at Salve Regina College in Newport, R.I., was thrown out of school because she failed to lose 2 lbs. a week. Now a nurse in Florida, Russell, 26, sued Salve Regina and won a $44,000 jury verdict. But the school appealed, arguing that her obesity kept Russell, an A student, from completing her clinical requirements. Says Salve Regina's lawyer Steven Snow: "There are certain physical requirements you have to fulfill to be a nurse. I don't know of any blind people who are nurses...
...have one case of a turtle being killed by being thrown against the wall," Levin said...
...died a few months after the book's completion, describes his initial misgivings about Gorbachev and glasnost. "Glasnost, thank goodness, is continually breaking new ground...[But]...the gap between word and deed has been growing," Sakharov writes. "Gorbachev and his close associates themselves may still not have completely thrown off the prejudices and dogmas of the system they inherited...
...after weeks of fighting and with a ground war seemingly imminent, the City Council has thrown its weight behind the American presence and is advocating a swift end to hostilities...