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...basic idea behind financing the contras was to force major concessions from the Sandinista regime, and perhaps to overthrow it entirely. After much maneuvering in Washington, Reagan in August announced his peace plan, which called for an immediate cease-fire and required the Sandinistas to give up all Cuban and Soviet-bloc aid, open negotiations with the contras, release all political prisoners, restore civil liberties and hold elections soon. Reagan was pleased to regard this as a bipartisan plan because it had won the co- sponsorship of Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright...
Although Paul Simon's recent surge in Iowa was interpreted as a boost from a constituency that still remembers Harry Truman, the retirees' vote seems up for grabs. So far the only candidates who have dared stray from the party line are those so far behind in the polls that they have little to lose. Bruce Babbitt talks of raising taxes on Social Security benefits of the affluent elderly. Pat Robertson and Pete du Pont warn that Social Security is threatened with bankruptcy and advocate shifting some of the burden to private plans. "When the baby-boom generation retires...
However they may squabble behind closed doors, America's Roman Catholic bishops have always sought to display a united front in public, on matters ranging from nuclear arms to the U.S. economy. Last week that carefully orchestrated unity crumpled when the bishops divided over the issue of whether education on the use of condoms to limit AIDS infection is morally acceptable...
...enraged party leaders, threw the race into chaos and vaulted the former Colorado Senator to the head of the presidential pack in a TIME poll. Can he survive without money, organization or further apology? -- Interviews with both the candidate and his long- enduring wife Lee reveal the tears behind the public smiles. See NATION...
After 13 months of anticipation and delays, Wall Street's most spectacular speculator -- and insider trader -- finally heard his fate. Hands clutched behind his back, Ivan Boesky, 50, listened pensively while U.S. District Court Judge Morris Lasker told a packed courtroom in Manhattan, "Criminal behavior such as Boesky's cannot go unchecked. Its seriousness was too substantial merely to forgive and to forget." With that the judge sentenced the onetime superstar investor to three years in prison for his role in the largest insider-trading scandal in history...