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...against the Soviet-backed North Korean government. Washington was thus taken aback last year, when North Korean slogans began creeping into South Korean protests and student rhetoric turned sharply anti-American. The U.S. has since urged Chun to help defuse the situation by compromising with the opposition on a formula for the transition to democracy. Secretary of State George Shultz, who visited Seoul last week during a ten-day Far East swing, reportedly received assurances that Chun would seek such a compromise. Said a senior U.S. diplomat: "We believe this is a historic opportunity, and both Chun and the opposition...
Dewitt was pleased with the transformation he had wrought. He liked Little Shop of Horrors--it was pretty funny, fast-paced, and certainly not as painful as sadistic dentist Steve Martin would like. But Dewitt had already seen Little Shop. Could his new formula produce a different film...
...give spark to a song with a stale line like "Hold me tight"? How can you best rebel against the "tyrannies of pop convention"? How do you tread the fine line between form and formula...
Reagan's was a government run against government. Government is the problem, not the solution, in his formula. Admittedly, Reagan loves government as ceremony and majesty. The rituals of his office, so irksome to other Presidents, were the things he liked best and did best. He gave out medals and awards enthusiastically (and generously: the military granted more medals for % Grenada than actual troops landed there). Heroic government, on the epic scale, was his favorite movie -- the happy Nuremberg rally...
While not saying when Brazil might resume payments, Sarney expressed willingness to negotiate an interest formula that his country could meet without risking "recession and social crisis." He never used the word default and insisted his aim was not confrontation: "Brazil does not wish to be an autarkic economy outside the world community...