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...though to confirm that interpretation, a Soviet diplomat last week gloated over the contrast between Gorbachev's age and Reagan's: "Now if there's a | summit, it will be your old leader sitting down with our young one. You might say we are turning the tables on you after all these years, going back to the meeting between John Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...central banks of West Germany, Britain, France and all the other major industrial countries launched a joint campaign to defend their currencies by selling dollars on the exchange markets. Though the Federal Reserve would not publicly confirm it, the U.S. joined the battle to rein in the dollar. Said a senior Administration official: "We spent tens of millions and the Europeans spent hundreds." By Wednesday afternoon the banks had unloaded at least $1.5 billion and sent the high-flying dollar into a nose dive. It dropped 4% compared with the mark and franc and 6% against the British pound. Even...
...other securities houses. Pickens transfers the huge sums from numbered bank accounts around the country through a system of prearranged signals. A Mesa officer starts the process by telephoning a bank and giving a code word to an appointed employee. That person then calls a second Mesa executive to confirm the transaction...
Military observers in Thailand confirm that the Khmer Rouge are active inside Kampuchea: they have been interdicting communications lines to the point where international relief workers warn against ferrying food and equipment along the two main roads connecting Kampuchea's major port, Kompong Som, with Phnom Penh. The train linking Phnom Penh and the western city of Battambang rarely runs: the guerrillas have attacked it too often...
Three of these stories first appeared in Playboy and two others ran in Esquire; the remainder made their debuts in quarterlies or little magazines. That parlay of the slick and scholarly is unusual, particularly for a beginning writer. Odder still, only a peek at the copyright page can confirm just which stories reached the mass or middling audiences; Easy in the Islands is a whole unified by consistent parts. Shacochis, 33, grew up in Virginia and earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in English at the University of Missouri, where he now serves as a visiting writer...