Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arriving like an invasion force, foreign media magnates have taken over billions of dollars' worth of U.S. properties ranging from RCA Records to Scientific American magazine. So far, their intentions have appeared to be strictly business. But what if a foreign communications kingpin were secretly working for the KGB as part of a diabolical scheme to influence American public opinion? And what if this media mole were to get his claws on the most ^ powerful U.S. communications company? That is the provocative premise of Agent of Influence (Putnam; 416 pages), an intriguing merger mystery by David Aaron, author...
...Secretary of State James Baker is renowned for keeping his boss out of deep doo-doo and never stepping into any himself. But Baker's surefootedness was notably lacking last week. In his first frantic foreign foray as the nation's top diplomat, the up-close-and-personal touch that has served Baker so well with Congress and the press did not play very well. And a new accord by five Central American Presidents caught the Secretary uncharacteristically off- stride...
...Baker was like someone on an all-you-can-visit tour, racing through 14 European capitals (not to mention Ottawa) in eight days. His visit was long enough for him to see that Western Europe is in the grip of Gorby fever: in response to Mikhail Gorbachev's disarming foreign policy, leaders there are awaiting something more substantive in the way of a U.S. response than the singing of Moscow Nights during the Soviet leader's White House visit...
...more sprinkles fell on Baker's parade when five Central American Presidents agreed to a plan that would disband the anti-Sandinista contras now holed up in Honduras in exchange for new guarantees of democracy by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Though Baker had met with the Foreign Ministers of Honduras and Costa Rica only a week before, the State Department was caught flat-footed. Spokesman Charles Redman could only declare, "We weren't at the meeting. We'd like to find out more about...
...showed hunters stabbing baby and adult seals with ice picks and in some instances dragging the animals, only half dead, back to Norwegian flaying vessels. The King's comments were strong stuff, considering Norway's sensitivity to criticism from Sweden, its onetime colonial master and its archrival. Said Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson of the King, before rushing off to Norway on a fence- mending mission: "He must have been very angry...