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...State Department, which approves overseas arms sales, wasn't persuaded. Voters did elect Latin American Presidents, but the democracies were fragile. The economies were improving, but more than 150 million people in the 20 countries covered by the arms ban still live in poverty. With no communist threat and the countries mostly at peace with one another, the last thing their Presidents needed was American attack jets at $24 million a copy. "We should be promoting arms control in the region first, not arms sales," says Bernard Aronson, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for Latin America during the Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW WASHINGTON WORKS...ARMS DEALS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...comedic but serious piece," Eszterhas says. "It ultimately makes the case that the President of the U.S. has to tell the truth." Indeed, the screenplay's climax has President Sam Parr confessing to the nation during a debate, "Yes, I diddled that cow!" Buoyed by his honesty, voters re-elect him in a landslide. "Maybe you're right," Eszterhas responds when asked if his script is just too vulgar ever to be made, "but I hope it has something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACTING PRESIDENTS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...disproportionately high number of students end up entering one high-paying or highly-respected fields, summers aren't meant to relax, but rather are used to further their career goals. I'm still playing the summer-internship search game, and I haven't yet decided whether I will elect to join the ranks of my fellow classmates and work 40 hour/five day weeks in a career-furthering position...

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Dx: Summer Anxiety | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

Wedding gifts aren't considered campaign contributions, which is just as well for the second family. Karenna Gore, 23, has become engaged to Andrew Schiff, a Manhattan doctor. Karenna's father-in-law-elect is a Republican, but her betrothed supports the home team. No juicy details of how they met have been released, but the happy nuptials are in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...demonstrations as an excuse to tighten his personal grip on power. With protests over the collapse of fraudulent investment schemes convulsing Albania, Berisha dismissed the government and shook up the armed forces. Last week he declared a state of emergency and then had his rubber-stamp Parliament re-elect him President. Protesters reacted by switching their targets from the Ponzi schemes to the one-man rule of Berisha. Simmering economic differences between the poorer north and the south boiled over, and several southern towns exploded into insurrection--or anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PONZI REVOLUTION | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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