Randomness (
randomness) wrote2005-03-07 03:31 pm
And, in other surreal news...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=558154
"Pro-Western Communists Win Moldova Vote"
"Sunday's elections have raised tensions with Russia, which maintains peacekeepers in a separatist Slavic enclave in Moldova, and dealt another blow to Moscow's waning influence in the former Soviet republics after the election of pro-Western leaders in Georgia and Ukraine last year."
Without getting into the details, this is the kind of headline you'd write into an '80s SF story for weird effect.
"Pro-Western Communists Win Moldova Vote"
"Sunday's elections have raised tensions with Russia, which maintains peacekeepers in a separatist Slavic enclave in Moldova, and dealt another blow to Moscow's waning influence in the former Soviet republics after the election of pro-Western leaders in Georgia and Ukraine last year."
Without getting into the details, this is the kind of headline you'd write into an '80s SF story for weird effect.