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Will that musty and elegiac sense of innocence pass away when Ne Win does? Probably not. In 1981 the general handed over the presidency, and nominal leadership of the country, to a like-minded sexagenarian, General San Yu; last August, at the Fifth Party Congress, the 18-man Central Executive Committee all but enshrined San Yu as Ne Win's heir apparent by creating the new position of deputy party chairman for him. That suggests much of the same. Moreover, adds a foreign diplomat, "Nobody has made a decision in this country for so long except Ne Win that nobody...
Gottlieb, 28, is a long-haired chain smoker who works out of a cluttered apartment on Manhattan's Central Park South. A graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, he launched his company, TeeVee Toons, in August 1984 and subsequently raised $250,000 to finance it. He then acquired the rights to 65 of TV's most memorable sound tracks and hired Composer Dave Erlanger, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, to produce the record. Erlanger re-created some songs that were unavailable or too scratchy to use. At $16.95, Gottlieb's album has sold 225,000 copies...
...calm the waters, B.Y.U. President Jeffrey Holland went to Israel and pledged last August that any Mormon teacher or student who proselytizes will be sent home. Church President Ezra Taft Benson last week wrote to Kollek, promising that Mormons will honor all Israeli laws. These commitments have not mollified Rabbi Moshe Porush of Yad 1'Achim (A Hand to the Brothers), an antimissionary organization that is spearheading the protests. He points to a 1979 Mormon handbook on how to convert Jews, which the church says is no longer...
...with one of his own on verification. He proposed an agreement on chemical weapons that moved beyond Moscow's previous willingness to destroy only existing stockpiles and called for dismantling production facilities as well. He also extended for three months a Soviet moratorium on weapons tests that began last August and was to have expired on Jan. 1, and he pledged to prolong it further if the U.S. should join. Washington insists it needs to test in order to catch up to Soviet advantages...
...Carl Icahn, Wilde's words may be painfully true. When Icahn learned last August that he had won his bitter battle to take over Trans World Airlines, the New York financier and renowned corporate raider put on a pilot's cap and jacket and pranced around his office. "We've got ourselves an airline," he exulted...