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...arms sales. There were at least four: in February, May, July and October. Three hostages eventually were released: the Rev. Benjamin Weir in September 1985, Father Lawrence Jenco last July and David Jacobsen in November. But three more Americans were kidnaped in Lebanon beginning in September. Even so, Reagan clung to his Iranian initiative to the bitter end. In his Nov. 19 press conference, after the storm had broken, the President voiced a wan hope that diplomatic contacts with Iran could continue, and Shultz had to practically bludgeon the President into announcing that there would be no more arms sales...
Experts say Yamani clung to his strategy despite growing opposition from King Fahd, who has called for a price of at least $18 per bbl. to boost Saudi oil earnings. Yamani countered that producers could control either prices or output, but not both at once. During OPEC's 17-day meeting in Geneva last month, Fahd repeatedly intervened from Riyadh on several key issues. The Geneva session wound up endorsing price-raising production limits, which Yamani initially opposed, through...
...most buffoonish (Nathan Lane) achieves the biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung to the ideals of youth...
...sweeping economic reform launched so far by China's leader, Deng Xiaoping. Beginning this week, all state-owned enterprises will be allowed to hire some workers under contracts similar to Li's. The change represents a dramatic turning away from the system of lifetime employment that the Chinese have clung to since the Communists took power under Mao Tse-tung in 1949. Says Max Boisot, a Peking-based British economist: "This is probably the biggest step of all Deng's reforms. If it succeeds, a lot of others will fall into place...
...Navy -- and its rules -- with contempt. He ignored orders he did not like, wore his uniform sparingly and preferred bluntness to civility. Still, he survived in the service for more than 63 years, longer than any other officer in U.S. naval history. Adjectives -- brilliant, egotistic, rude, unorthodox -- clung to Rickover like barnacles to boats. Yet it was the diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.) Rickover who first grasped the potential of nuclear power at sea and who tugged and cajoled a reluctant Navy to develop and install reactors in submarines. Today "the silent service" fostered by Rickover is the foundation...