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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...send-off. The veteran U.S. Trade Representative, whose tenure ends in January, had hoped that last week's trade talks in Montreal would produce significant progress, especially on knotty problems like agricultural subsidies and intellectual property rights. He did not get it. After four days of exhausting round-the-clock negotiations, the talks ended in deadlock on several major issues, forcing a four-month extension of discussions. Said a philosophical Yeutter: "This provides additional opportunities for creative thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Standoff in Montreal: Hopes for a GATT Agreement Fade | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Since taking over the Moscow bureau last June, Kohan has found that Gorby watching is a seven-day-a-week, round-the-clock job. The General Secretary's four-car Moscow motorcade often whisks past Kohan's Kutuzovsky Prospect apartment en route to the Kremlin. But keeping an eye on Gorbachev is as exciting as it is demanding. Says Kohan: "There have been times during the past hectic months of political activity when I have wondered if Gorbachev has not reached a dead end. Then, suddenly, he will pull off a surprise, and everything will move forward again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Dec 19 1988 | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Koskotas, not long ago a middle- ranking bank employee, succeeded in building an empire that comprised the bank, five magazines, three newspapers, a radio station and a popular soccer football team. The public also wonders how Koskotas managed to flee Greece while he was under around-the-clock surveillance by an antiterrorist squad. Greeks blame the government for botching the investigation. For his part, Koskotas, who is awaiting extradition from the U.S., has threatened to reveal more high-level wrongdoing. He vows, "I am going to throw them in a frying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging It Out in Public: Papandreou's peccadilloes | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...central square of Leninakan, the hands on the clock tower stood frozen at 11:41 a.m., as if to record for posterity that terrifying moment when the city of 290,000 was, without warning, shaken violently by a rumble from the earth. Concrete and stone snapped like brittle twigs, hospitals and schools crashed down on patients and children, and workers were entombed in factories. Within minutes the city was split apart like an accordion. Forty-five miles to the north, the town of Spitak, population 30,000, was virtually "erased from the face of the earth," in the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union When the Earth Shook | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...With the clock ticking down in the final period, the focus of the game centered on Hughes. Shutout or no shutout, that was the question...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Young, Icemen Down Ailing Green | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

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