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...begin reading is the weekly news summary that starts on page 22. This section, called The Week, will deliver on the purpose that our founders, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, set for the magazine in its prospectus in 1922: to keep busy people informed. Today readers like you are busier than ever and blanketed by sound bites and news fragments as never before. TIME's news summary sorts the important from the trivial, the timeless from the fleeting...
...this year only to slide 6.9% in the period from March 11 to March 20. "Obviously, this is not a boom," says Thomas Webb, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Yet the modest overall pickup has left the Big Three with dwindling backlogs of unsold cars and busier production schedules. Ford plans just 12 weeks of plant shutdowns to trim inventories in the second quarter, compared with 36 weeks for the same period a year ago. The downtime could be extended, though, if buyers stay fickle. Says a Ford analyst: "If we had three or four bad weekends...
...Stickles was busier battling Northeastern this season than fighting athletic policy...
...this year, Bush aides say, a return appearance by Baker is out of the question -- at least for now. For starters, Baker is busier now as Secretary of State. Further, Bush resents the notion that he needs handlers. Aides believe that the President would have to be behind by at least 15 points before he could bring himself to call Baker again for help. "For Baker to come back," said a Bush lieutenant, "things would have to be a lot more desperate than they...
...Chinese hard-liners, like those in Stalinist North Korea and anachronistic Vietnam, are determined not to share the fate of their communist counterparts in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. China's internal watchdogs are visibly busier now than they were before the August coup attempt in Moscow. Police squads patrol city streets at night and keep close watch on the families and friends of jailed dissidents. Party offices are conducting more ideology classes than usual...