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...streets are controlled by pickup trucks carrying antiaircraft guns and young men -- some barely in their teens -- with Kalashnikov rifles. Their eyes are bright with the drug called kat, their fingers quick on the trigger. Makeshift hospitals dot the city; the existing ones were looted long ago. The wounded must bring their own beds, so most end up lying on the floor, a weeping relative holding aloft their intravenous solution -- when it is available. Somali doctors and foreign volunteers move so quickly from patient to patient that trails of blood pattern the floors...
Last week Gravano described his 1976 induction into the Gambino family, a solemn ceremony over which Castellano presided. The man whose murder Gravano would later help orchestrate pricked the novice's trigger finger and dripped blood onto the picture of a saint, which was then set on fire...
More than ever, trade is the key to prosperity. The recession of 1931 became the Great Depression of 1932 after the Smoot-Hawley tariffs contributed to the collapse of world markets. Since trade accounts for 25% of U.S. GNP today, a trade war would trigger a depression that would make the present downturn look like a minor blip...
...Yeltsin succeeds, a democratic Russia will integrate itself into the West. It will bolster European stability, cooperate with Western powers in far-flung crises and enhance prosperity through trade. If he fails, a new despotism will arise based on extremist Russian nationalism. This could trigger war among the former Soviet republics, force the West to rearm, threaten Eastern Europe's security, relieve pressures in China for political reform and lead to sales of Russian arms and military technology to rogue states such as Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and North Korea...
...shooting. He claimed to have been walking his sheep dog near the Capitol one night when he was accosted by two men. Russ claimed that one of the men put a gun into his mouth while the other took his wallet and Rolex watch. The gunman pulled the trigger but the bullet only ripped through his left cheek. As he recuperated at home last week, Russ called reports questioning his account of the shooting "ludicrous" and "ridiculous." Police have not found the gun, bullet or suspects...