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...squelch ethnic unrest with strong-arm tactics, Yeltsin's voice has been one of the few public ones consistently opposing him. Yeltsin has said he has no desire to replace Gorbachev, but the President clearly does not trust him. After Soviet paratroops shot their way into the television tower in Lithuania last month, killing 15 demonstrators, Yeltsin flew off to neighboring Estonia and publicly condemned the deployment of soldiers against civilians. He then signed a mutual security treaty between the Russian federation and the three Baltic republics...
With its Regency furniture, rich wood paneling and commanding view of Chicago's skyline, the executive floor of the 110-story Sears Tower is a monument to the company's glorious century as America's favorite store. Now those days are gone. When Sears' 13 directors gathered last week in the spacious, peach-carpeted 68th-floor boardroom, the reports they faced were overwhelmingly bad. A mammoth increase in advertising had scarcely budged sales. Profits were way down. The Christmas selling season was the worst in 15 years. One piece of news especially seemed to mock the setting's regal grandeur...
...that hidden fiber of racism and hang it out for view, thus comforting the aggrieved and assuaging the consciences of the offenders. This week's agenda is loaded with the same stuff: a workshop on "Addressing Issues of Personal Racism," a panel discussion on "Multiculturalism in the Ivory Tower...
Amid all the cheers, a few small doubts have been raised. "It's hard not to see in Lincoln Center's bicentennial gourmandizing a musical Trump Tower," Berkeley musicologist Richard Taruskin complained in the New York Times. The Economist was concerned that "the world will be in grave danger of suffering from surfeit." "Mozart will be everywhere," sighed the French weekly L'Express, "on posters, the radio, the front page . . . not to mention Viennese confections and chocolate Mozarts. Mozart wrote, 'I would like to have all that is good, true and beautiful.' Well, so he will and, alas, all that...
Fretful foreign governments wondered whether Gorbachev would countenance % bloodshed to suppress the independence movements. A chilling indication came early Sunday morning. Thousands of unarmed Lithuanians, singing freedom songs, tried to prevent Soviet troops and tanks from taking control of a television tower 3 miles outside Vilnius. Shots were fired, and at least 7 people were reported killed and 70 injured. At least two of the dead had been crushed beneath the treads of Soviet tanks...