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...effect, Cicippio's suspended sentence left his loved ones -- and the U.S. -- suspended as well. Behind Cicippio is a tattered line of 14 other Western hostages, eight of them Americans, still believed to be held in Lebanon. Other Americans continue to live and work in that shattered country despite official warnings issued by Washington in January 1987 that in effect they are on their own. So long as the U.S. and its citizens venture forth freely in the world, they will be vulnerable to extortion by kidnapers. Trying to come to terms with that implacable fact, Ronald Reagan stumbled...
...Behind the scenes, the Administration was working in a crisis mode. In private Bush described himself as going through "the most difficult time of my presidency," and by week's end the strain in his face was pronounced. To save Cicippio, the State Department set up a round-the-clock hostage task force, while the White House launched a diplomatic rescue effort that one U.S. envoy called "a full-court press on everybody we know." Characteristically, the President worked the phone with the heads of state of most European allies and nations in the Middle East -- with the notable exception...
...market research for a variety of corporations, business associations and publications. Since January we have shared our polls with Cable News Network, which broadcasts the results on its 24-hour news shows. Observes Zintl: "If you can get a measure of public sentiment, and some of the reasons behind it, that can be very valuable to the reader. It can add evidence to what we're finding out anecdotally...
Hijuelos, 37, author of 1985's Our House in the Last World, catches the rhythms and flavors of the streets, nightclubs and Latin family life. Castillo is all melody, by turns upbeat and melancholy. By age 60, his best performances on bandstand and bedstead behind him, he occupies a room in an East Harlem flop mockingly called the Hotel Splendour. There, his music out of style, his body failing, he thrives on memories of songs sung and women loved. Yet, as Hijuelos conveys with art and sympathy, the Mambo King is to be admired and envied...
Following its humiliating defeat in last month's upper-house elections, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party groped for ways to restore its scandal-ridden reputation. Last week the majority of the party threw its support behind a single candidate for Prime Minister, Toshiki Kaifu, 58, but it is doubtful whether his selection has done much to restore the party's honor...