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...four defendants -- North, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Businessman ! Albert Hakim -- are demanding to see 300,000 pages of classified documents. But a Government team has so far produced only 35,254 pages, leading Presiding Judge Gerhard Gesell to grumble last week, "There is a stone wall being built up between this court and the trial. The responsibility lies with the Attorney General and the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Oliver North's Paper Chase | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...unseat the strongman. Noriega remains firmly in control, despite opposition strikes, U.S. economic sanctions, and the dispatch of 1,300 additional U.S. troops to Panama. The economic noose intended to yank Noriega from power is instead choking Panama's banking, construction, retail and tourism industries. Says a young businessman in Panama City: "Noriega has made fools of the Americans, and we are the ones who have suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Is No Plan B | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Walt Disney was of course more than America's story-spinning uncle; he was the canniest businessman in Hollywood. His credo might have been the Jesuits': Give me a child before he's seven, and he will be mine for life. Once this shaman-showman had seized kids' minds, he could raid their piggy banks. And on that mountain of pennies he could build an empire. His cartoons and feature films sired comic books, toys, hit songs (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, When You Wish upon a Star, Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah) and the ubiquitous Mickey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Banner High | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...year-old businessman, Tadar El-Kebi, said he saw the hijackers going through the plane trying to wipe off their finger prints shortly after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shiite Hijackers Free 31 Hostages | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

Nick Raposo is also hilarious as the mad businessman constantly leaving phone numbers with his answering service. Lucy Soutter's performance as Linda wavers on the wooden once in a while, but she has about her a pleasing nuttiness reminiscent of some of Woody's best leading ladies...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Trenchcoat Warfare | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

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