Word: coasting
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Still, the man who appears to bear paramount responsibility may never be brought to court. P.W. Botha, 80, sits in virtual seclusion in retirement on the south coast of the cape. Botha, who suffered a stroke before his 1989 resignation, appears increasingly enfeebled; that, plus his legendary irascibility, may make it awkward if not impossible to force him to face the commission. Embattled and isolated, he refuses to give interviews or even to pick up the telephone; an aide who answered a call last week described the unrepentant hard-liner as "unapproachable." Yet if auguries are to be credited...
Besides offering brew-on-premises services, The Modern Brewer sells equipment for home-brewing and operates its own brewery. Local yuppie restaurants like the Cottonwood Cafe, Redbones, Gargoyles and East Coast Grill carry the brewery's final product...
...some $2 billion. Three months later, partly with that figure as ammunition, Administration moderates staged a policy coup. Under Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff began secretly talking to Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's legislature. The Guantanamo refugees would be sent to Florida. To stanch any new exodus, U.S. Coast Guard boats would intercept future rafters at sea and return them to Cuba on condition that the regime not punish them...
CATHY BOOTH barely had time to glance at the Pacific before she leaped into her new job as West Coast bureau chief with the fervor that has kept colleagues' heads spinning for years. This week her bureau contributed to a typical array of stories, including Bob Dole's last-ditch campaign effort in California, the state's ballot initiative on marijuana, the latest rush of O.J. Simpson revelations and the retooling of the CBS sitcom Ink. Booth, who did standout reporting from Haiti and Cuba while heading TIME's Miami bureau, says of her new turf, "We have every story...
Your item on Pennsylvania representative Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 30], contained numerous errors, the most egregious of which was the allegation that an amendment to the House Coast Guard reauthorization bill would "shield cruise-line companies from lawsuits by women who are raped aboard their ships." This is absolutely false. The House bill does no such thing. In fact, it expressly protects the right to sue if there is substantial physical injury, the threat of such injury or an intentional act. Moreover, Congressman Shuster's position on this issue has been...