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...businessman, who had invited me to accompany him on his five-week foray through Russia, where he introduced me with deliberate vagueness as his associate, struggled back into his heavy coat and fur hat and pushed out the door into the frozen night. His shopping trip had only begun, and there were plenty of other bargains to be found...
Deductions were especially handy for the Clintons in those years, when they were needed to offset gains made by Hillary Clinton's foray into commodity trading. She added $26,541 to the family income in 1978 and $72,436 in 1979. Even with deductions, the growth of the Clintons' tax payments outpaced the rise of their income. For 1977, they paid taxes of $8,194 on an adjusted gross income of $41,731. By the next year, their income more than doubled, to $85,214, but their taxes grew faster, to $22,627. For 1979, when their reported income...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher took heat from Congress for his chilly reception in Beijing two weeks ago. But what Christopher's critics didn't know is that the advance foray by one of his deputies that so irritated the Chinese was carried out without Christopher's knowledge. The Secretary was unaware that John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, was meeting a week earlier with Chinese dissident leader Wei Jingsheng. The U.S. embassy arranged the visit at the last minute and expected Wei to keep it secret...
DIED. SALLY BELFRAGE, 57, author; of cancer; in London. Born in Los Angeles to English parents, Belfrage made her first journalistic foray in 1959 with A Room in Moscow, a report on daily life in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. She went on to join the fabled freedom riders in the early 1960s, registering blacks to vote and recording her feelings of terror and triumph in the 1965 book Freedom Summer. Her other works include Living with War, based on a year in the urban battleground of Belfast in Northern Ireland, and an autobiography to be published later this year...
...White Oak's first New York foray was a success. What sets this troupe apart from other groups organized by celebrities is the seriousness and intelligence of its programs and the fact that the ensemble comes first. While Baryshnikov may have solos, he appears in other dances -- Signals, Lilies -- in small roles. The audience leaves feeling that it has had a revealing glimpse into modern dance, not into a superstar's mirror...