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...amount of economic reform can succeed without a massive influx of foreign aid. As Poland's foremost trading partner and a major creditor ($550 million in hard-currency loans since May), the Soviet Union is a logical source. Warsaw accordingly dispatched a delegation to Moscow to seek assistance and explain the strike agreements. Headed by First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, the man who negotiated the Gdansk accord, the Polish envoys met first with Soviet trade officials. Jagielski then held a private meeting with Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Politburo's hard-lining ideologist; diplomats in Moscow had no doubt...
...course, for America's foremost contemporary reporter-turned-essayist, Joan Didion. When Didion undertakes a character profile -- her piece on James Pike, the Episcopalian Bishop of California, for example -- she doesn't begin with the subject, his family, philosophy, or even a recitation of his favorite food (as did Janet Flanner in a 1936 profile of Adolph Hitler). Rather, Didion begins the piece with a word about her own recollection of Pike's church, and then characteristically proceeds to lace the narrative with what she calls elsewhere, "always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable 'I.'" "The greatest study of Mann is Mann...
...reflections and lyrics. Many of these are printed not only in elegant type but also in their original scribbled state, with inks and stationery letterheads reproduced with the craft and fidelity usually reserved for a Monet. Though he wrote Here Comes the Sun and Something, Harrison was not the foremost of the Fab Four as everyone - perhaps including George himself - would agree. "The small change of a short lifetime" is the way he describes the contents in a foreword. "I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn...
...Foremost among the American past "sins" in the region was a longstanding policy of supporting cooperative military regimes. The most glaring example of such support: the CIA-engineered military coup that toppled a reform-minded Guatemalan government in 1954. The Carter Administration seemed to foreshadow a change in policy with its human rights campaign. In 1977 Guatemala angrily rejected U.S. military aid because of the human rights provisions attached to it. In 1978, when Somoza's power was already threatened by the Sandinistas, Washington severed its special military relationship with the high-living Nicaraguan dictator. Soon afterward, the Administration...
...country?" Mississippi Republican Chairman Mike Retzer took the analogy a step further, asking, "If the President can't control Billy, how can he control Brezhnev?" In Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Bob Hughes called the Billy episode "Watergate revisited," adding: "The idea of America's foremost beer drinker negotiating with Gaddafi or Hamilton Jordan negotiating with Panama over the Shah makes you wonder what the hell was the State Department doing...