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SEPTEMBER 7, 1998 VOL. 152 NO. 9


Spotlight


BOUNCING BACK: After he was sacked by President Boris Yeltsin five months ago, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin seemed finished for good. But this is Russia. Yeltsin did an about-face last week, reinstated the man he once blamed for the country's economic woes and named him heir apparent.
Illustration for TIME by Philip Nicholson

WINNERS  &  LOSERS
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
Judge protects reputation of Elvis' virgin bride, fining man who says he knew her before the King
RINGO STARR
The Beatles sang Back in the USSR but never got there--ex-drummer finally takes the stage in Russia
PRINCE CHARLES
His countrymen now tell pollsters the heir to the throne deserves it
AL GORE
While Clinton squirms, Justice reopens probe of the VP's campaign finance activities
BOEING
Rough week: shuttle blows up on its first launch, and rival Airbus wins big British Airways contract
OSAMA BIN LADEN
Fingered by Kenya bomb suspect, terrorist leader faces U.S. indictment for past plots

VERBATIM
"Please fire a missile from an airplane like you did in Sudan."
SAM RAINSY, Cambodian opposition politician, asking the U.S. to bomb co-premier Hun Sen

"I'm not complaining. I'm just wondering what the voters were thinking."
JERRY KOBYLUK, U.S. Senate candidate, who finished 2,000 votes behind a dead woman in a primary

"In a world dominated by terror, yes, we could, to use the parlance, 'take them out.'"
TONY BLAIR, British PM, rejecting hardline appeals to assassinate leaders who claimed responsibility for the Omagh bombing

"Americans are a conspiratorial people, and black people have good rea-son to suspect conspiracy."
JULIAN BOND, U.S. civil rights leader, on the reopening of the investigation into the 1968 murder of Martin Luther King Jr.



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