Yeltsin Reinstates Chernomyrdin After Kiriyenko Push
Marshall J. Goldman argues Russia cycled leaders as Yeltsin replaced Kiriyenko with Chernomyrdin amid debt default threats. He notes devaluation, IMF loan exhaustion, and oligarch pressure hinting Russia may be headed to bankruptcy.
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Russia
Boris Yeltsin
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Yeltsin
Sergei Kiriyenko
Chernomyrdin
Turkey
Kiriyenko
Moscow
International Monetary Fund
Changing norms rise in unmarried births in Census data
A Census Bureau study shows for the first time a majority of first births occur to unmarried women, with births to unwed parents up fivefold since the 1930s. The shift reflects delayed marriages, women’s financial independence, and changing social expectations across ages 20s to 30s.
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Pam Hesse
Hesse
Grand Forks
Cody
Alec
Census Bureau
Stephanie Coontz
Evergreen State College
Olympia
Wash
Our Town
America
Thornton Wilder
Andrea Engber
National Organization of Single Mothers
Midland
N.C
Arlene Skolnick
New York University
National Institutes of Health
Barbara Risman
Bin Laden threat warned by former CIA officer
Chip Beck a retired Navy commander and former CIA station chief argues Americans are unprepared for biochemical and nuclear terror. He calls for clear policy, full disclosure, and a wartime declaration to confront transnational terrorists and their use of mass destruction tactics.
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Osama bin Laden
Los Angeles
New York
Washington
Afghanistan
Sudan
U.S
bin Laden
America
Congress
Chip Beck
Navy
CIA
Clandestine Service
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