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...originally bound from the port of Setubal to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The shipment in a West German flag carrier was illegal under a Bonn law that forbids the transport of armaments to "areas of tension." The delivery was contracted for by the Danish shipping firm of Finn J. Poulsen, which has an indirect connection with Iranscam. Last April the company sold a 163-ft. ship to shadowy private partners of Oliver North, who paid with funds from North's Geneva bank account. That ship was used to deliver arms to the Nicaraguan contras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everybody's Doing It | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...death and derangement, identifying choice morsels by stripe and cry. His range includes a wide variety of wildlife: a condemned murderer named Germany Baker, a radical feminist with a wardrobe of obscene T shirts, an ambitious, self- absorbed television newswoman, black and Hispanic militants, limousine , liberals and Fritz Finn, President of the U.S., who has had an affair with Broderick's late sister. Jack's brother Augustine, affectionately known throughout the world as Bro, is a Benedictine priest with 14 honorary degrees, a 43-line entry in Who's Who and entree to Fidel and the Pope. One of Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Generation of Vipers THE RED WHITE AND BLUE | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Japanese higher education "is not held in particularly high esteem elsewhere in the world. It could probably benefit from some help," said Assistant Secretary of Education Chester E. Finn Jr., who supervised a Department of Education study of Japanese education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schools May Branch to Japan | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

...surprised or displeased that they are seeking to benefit from contacts with U.S. higher education." Finn added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schools May Branch to Japan | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

...Agonistes (1970), he tracked a man contending for a lifetime with self-destructive impulses. With Reagan, he finds a subject wholly at peace with his past. Whatever is unpleasant is simply ignored, forgotten or invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family's arrival. HANG AND BURN THREE NEGROES read the headlines of the village paper. ROPE BREAKS PRECIPITATING VICTIM INTO BURNING EMBERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Somnipractor REAGAN'S AMERICA: INNOCENTS AT HOME | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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