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...secret to Brown's success is no mystery: the troika of guards Rick Lloyd and Chuck Savage and bruiser Kirk Lowry cleaning the boards...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Tough Road for M. Cagers | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

...advice on global affairs. "We managed to do a lot for world peace and democracy," she explained to the BBC. A senior British Cabinet Minister who views her plan as a slap at the successors to the three leaders calls Thatcher's idea "barmy." In any case, the troika has only one member so far: Gorbachev and Reagan are maintaining a polite silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kissinger Associates Can Sleep Soundly | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

They tell me that back in '37, a troika ((a three-man kangaroo court common during the purges of the Stalinist terror)) could decide a person's fate. And now a troika is deciding the fate of entire nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want to Stay the Course | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Yeltsin's Co-Founding Troika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Stanislav who? Even Sovietologists had to scramble last week to gather information about Stanislav Shushkevich, the distant third member of the commonwealth troika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin's Key Partners | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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