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...Barley is not the only odd man out. Witnessing and narrating these events is Horatio Benedict dePalfrey, a lawyer who has spent the past 20 years of his career papering over the questionable deeds of the secret service, mopping up after the people he calls espiocrats. "I am quickly dealt with," he writes of himself. "You need not stumble on me long." To the contrary. He, "old Harry" or "old Palfrey" to his colleagues, is the one who shapes this story, colors it with his own disillusionments, invites credibility through his own refusal to believe in much of anything...
Once upon a time, high-quality watches ticked, had mechanical movements (hand- wound or self-winding) and almost always came from Switzerland. But that was before the onslaught of Japanese quartz watches dealt a near deathblow to the Swiss industry. Now Swiss watchmakers, who survived by converting to quartz technology, plan to turn back the clock...
Noriega, who remained out of sight for most of the week, did not emerge unscathed from the sorry election exercise. Panamanian voters dealt him a stinging rebuke in rejecting, by more than 2 to 1, the presidential candidacy of Carlos Duque, the general's longtime friend and business manager. So clear was the electorate's embrace of the opposition, a coalition known as the Democratic Alliance of Civil Opposition and led by lawyer Guillermo Endara, that authorities felt obliged to declare the election null and void. That decision was widely interpreted as an admission by Noriega that given such...
...Niekerk said before the Botha government imposed a ban on press coverage, American press coverage of the violence there dealt a psychological blow to South Africans who support apartheid...
...staged counterprotests, which quickly spread to Tbilisi and mushroomed into calls for more autonomy from Moscow and even secession. As funeral processions snaked through Tbilisi's streets last week, Gorbachev said he was "deeply grieved" by the tragedy but warned that "we will not allow a blow to be dealt to the brotherhood of the U.S.S.R. or to the cause of reform...