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Nicaragua would have never caused so much stir in the U.S. if Daniel Ortega's government were not Marxist. But that fact alone is enough to convince the Reagan Administration that this Central American nation about the size of Arkansas threatens the security of the United States. It is this threat that makes Reagan push for more contra aid. Yet at the same time, he calls peace the final goal in Central America...
...veil of secrecy that even insiders cannot always penetrate. Marshal Akhromeyev stunned his hosts during his recent U.S. tour by conceding that military leaders do not know precisely how much the Kremlin spends annually to develop weapons. Procurement as well as research and development is funded by the central government, he said, and the costs do not show up in the military budget. Those two items alone represent close to half of overall U.S. defense spending. "The bottom line is that the Soviets don't really have a handle on the burden of defense spending," says F. Stephen Larrabee, vice...
Using its close ties to Japanese investors, Nomura serves as a central conduit for the trillions of yen pouring out of Japan in search of bigger, better returns. Last year, when Japan had a trade surplus of $96 billion, its net purchases of foreign securities amounted to $88 billion, up from $4 billion in 1980. The largest portion of that outflow used to go into U.S. Treasury securities, but increasingly the Japanese are buying foreign stocks and bonds. They are also acquiring overseas companies and real estate. And no matter what type of play a Japanese investor wants to make...
...miner and a police official's college teacher wife, a series of comic set pieces starring the official's bullying superior, and a whole slew of secrets unwisely unearthed. The daring mingling of genres works rather better than the cluttered plot. Most memorable are the scenes of the central character, a wilder version of the bright boy who is the schoolteacher's beneficiary in The Corn Is Green. Even in this messy story, those passages could make believers of many who have given up too soon on the mystery as literature...
...Complaints from neighbors about noise and traffic congestion prompted the ruling," Scali said. "The new policy is one of capped areas, where the sale of liquor is restricted, like in Central Square, Harvard Square, Inman Square, Porter Square and along Mass...