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PLAYER OF THE YEAR Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore80 Cecil Fielder, Detroit 37 Barry Bonds, Pittsburgh 14 Terry Pendleton, Atlanta 12 Frank Thomas, Chicago (AL) 10 Bobby Bonilla, Pittsburgh 7 Julio Franco, Texas 4 Howard Johnson, New York (NL) 4 Jose Canseco, Oakland 2 Paul Molitor, Milwalkee 2 Joe Carter, Toronto 1 Will Clark, San Francisco 1 Ron Gant, Atlanta 1 Tom Glavine, Atlanta 1 Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle 1 Reuben Sierra, Texas...
...more private-sector investment there. But even < if the European Bank is allowed to do that, no one can say that problems will be resolved overnight. It will be a very long process, and the coming years are going to be very difficult. When Spain shook itself free after Franco's death, it had much more going for it than the Soviet Union, including a successful entrepreneurial tradition. And yet readjustment there produced unemployment as high as 24%. If the Soviet Union is lucky enough to follow Spain's example, we will soon see 40 million people out of work...
...Milan, Italy's irrepressible gadfly Franco Moschino points out that the Tois and the Lagerfelds are Johnny-come-latelies. Moschino has used denim for years in his clever, occasionally rude collections. He sells to royalty and rock stars -- in fact, to anyone who is secure enough or desperate enough to want to stand out. Right now he is making shirts with looped embroidery across the chest. "I use denim as a symbol of our times," says Moschino, "in the same way that Andy Warhol, in his Pop Art, used wartime camouflage painted over faces, to give them a contemporary impression...
Then in 1984, a monarch accepted Harvard's invitation. King Juan Carlos of Spain, the man who had guided his country from the totalitarianism of Gen. Francisco Franco to a fragile democracy, came to speak to the graduating class...
...home and abroad. Once Saddam had rejected France's last-minute peace bid, Mitterrand put everything behind securing an allied victory, telling aides, "We are face-to- face with history." He forced the resignation of his anti-American Defense Minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, a co-founder of the Franco-Iraqi Friendship Association who had tried to limit any military action by France strictly to Kuwaiti territory. French forces in the gulf were not only placed under General Norman Schwarzkopf's overall command but were also integrated with other allied contingents. Overflights of France by U.S. B-52 bombers on their...