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...Sydney newspaper that charged members of Indonesian President Suharto's family and some of his associates with pocketing billions of dollars through shady business deals. The piece compared Suharto and his wife Madame Tien to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, dubbing Indonesia's First Lady "Madame Tien Per Cent." That same day New York Times Correspondent Barbara Crossette was expelled, possibly in response to a Times story by Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal classifying Suharto as a "tyrant...
...direct lines to the money moguls to ask, "What's your market in stock X, Y, or Z?" Through such second-long transactions, Harvard traders shuffle around an average of $4 million each day. In the last three months, under HMC's care, the endowment raked in a 10-cent profit for every dollar moved in daily trading...
...over town, chatting for hours at a time. A two-week investigation by local police and New Jersey Bell uncovered the cause of that loquaciousness: a computer glitch that allowed 400 pay phones in the Hackensack area to be used for worldwide conversations without costing the caller a cent. After bugging selected phones, the authorities realized that almost half the international calls placed in an eight-week period bypassed the operator and went directly overseas. Most people, it seems, were dialing friends and family in Korea, India and Israel...
Certainly, Santiago appears to be a prosperous, industrial metropolis. That much of Kirkpatrick's distinction holds true. The capital, where a large plurality of Chileans live, is a lovely city of tree-lined streets, public gardens, monuments in grassy squares, a speedy, modern 10-cent metro that rivals the one in Paris, and stylish shops with bright displays and billboard ads. A far cry from the drab exterior of your average Eastern-bloc country...
...name of the founder of the Soviet state, Yevtushenko declared, "Lenin understood that speaking out is a purifying force. Today's long- awaited striving for improvement in life gives us confidence that it will become standard behavior for citizens to speak out. We writers will not be worth a cent if we merely record and extol the public transformations that are taking place apart from us." While alluding to the strict controls on Soviet artists, the poet never once used the word censorship...