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...Treasuries offer a timely combination of high yields and safety. Moreover, interest on the securities is exempt from state and local taxes. While rates have dipped below the peaks they reached in March, new three-month T-bill issues offered an attractive return of more than 8.5% last week. Investors daunted by the $10,000 minimum-purchase requirement for T-bills can buy longer-term Treasury notes and bonds in face amounts of $1,000 and $5,000. Such securities mature in two to 30 years and can pay more than 9% interest, which often exceeds the rates paid...
...Bill Irwin...
Performance artist. New vaudevillian. Silent clown. However you label limber-jointed Bill Irwin, he is one of the most winsome presences in the American theater. In the sketchbook Largely New York, which opened on Broadway last week, he wears a top hat and spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage...
...Siegel are generals in the new radio army, there are plenty of eager lieutenants vying for attention. Mark Williams, who came to San Diego's XTRA-AM from Phoenix last July, ticks off his on-air crusades with self-promotional relish. "In Phoenix," he relates, "I killed an antiabortion bill in the house by one vote, going on the air a couple of hours before and giving out the phone numbers of undecided legislators. I also managed to put together a spousal-rape...
Because the U.S. has largely operated through the ISI, it is seen as endorsing Pakistan's vision of a friendly Islamic regime in Kabul. The rebel leader who most closely fills that bill is Hekmatyar, head of the best- disciplined guerrilla organization, Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party). Some ; Western experts are uncomfortable with Hekmatyar's plan to turn Afghanistan into a Muslim state governed by shari'a (Islamic law), which could take an anti-American course. Should Washington be supporting someone with the potential to be a U.S. enemy? Defenders say Hekmatyar, despite his Islamic zeal, is also a pragmatist...