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Some observers believe a new troika of power linking Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria will emerge in the region. U.S. analysts in Washington are doubtful. As they see it, Riyadh has been burned so badly by its neighbors that it is likely to resist Arab alignments and instead rely more on the West...
...five years Gorbachev has been in power, his every move has been dogged by these two men, shadow members of a strange political troika. Ligachev was the archconservative, unwilling to sacrifice ideological certainties for the risks of change; Boris Yeltsin, the maverick populist, wanting to go further, faster in forcing the pace of reform. At times the two have seemed like Gorbachev's alter egos, the right and left boundary markers on his political horizon. But mostly they have been his rivals, vying to force him off the careful centrist course he has charted for himself...
...look at Gorbachev somewhat this way: I see him as a troika. I seem him first as a communist. Second, he's a Russian nationalist. Maybe we should say he's proud of his country; he's a patriot. His purpose is not to abandon communism but to save it. But he also has another facet, which at times overrides the other two, that he is a great, pragmatic politician. And as a pragmatic politician, he sometimes will overrule even his basic communist instincts, or even his national instincts, in the event that his political survival requires...
Mayor O'Connor, 43, -- "Mayor Mo," as she is airily addressed by her constituents -- is at the center of a powerful troika of female leadership. The other two members do not hold public office and hardly need to. One is the region's foremost publisher, Helen Copley, 67, the stately owner of the San Diego Union and Tribune and a chain of 40 other papers. The other is philanthropist Joan Kroc, 61, the vivacious majority stockholder in McDonald's and owner of the San Diego Padres...
Ethiopia. As one of the troika of African states -- with Angola and Mozambique -- that remain most closely aligned with the East bloc, Ethiopia's regime has had scant luck with Marxism-Leninism for some time. More than a year ago, Moscow warned officials in the capital, Addis Ababa, that its multimillion-dollar military-assistance package would be significantly cut when the current agreement expires next year. Since then, the last of several thousand Cuban soldiers have departed, more than one-third of the 2,500 Soviet military and development advisers and their dependents have pulled out, and it is rumored...