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Marcos is the first wife of a foreign head of state to stand trial in an American court. U.S. prosecutors say she wove a "spider's web of deceit and corruption" that stretched halfway around the world. With testimony from 95 witnesses, the prosecutors have outlined a tangled tale of secret Swiss bank accounts and laundered money, forged signatures and phony names, bribes and kickbacks, smuggled paintings, a phantom ship loaded with Japanese gold from World War II, and offshore shams and scams of such complexity that one wonders how the Marcoses ever had time to run their country...
...shaky economic future. "Florio didn't create the fiscal crisis, and he's made a strong case for solving it," says Richard Roper, director of the program for New Jersey affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. "As a result, New Jersey is willing to meet him halfway...
...sovereignty." In a show of goodwill, he partly eased the natural-gas embargo against breakaway Lithuania. After meeting with the leaders of all the republics for five hours last week, Gorbachev seemed to have dampened his antagonist's fervor. Said Yeltsin: "We shook hands, and we met each other halfway . . . We agreed that Russia cannot survive without the entire country and the country cannot survive without Russia...
Like a married couple facing tough times, Bush and Gorbachev seem determined to make the relationship work despite their difficulties. After wrestling for two days with intractable problems, the two Presidents simply set their differences aside and exchanged signatures on a variety of halfway measures. When their negotiators got hung up once again on the details of arms reduction, Bush and Gorbachev instead signed a joint statement to slash the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads, and they inked formal pacts to eliminate most of their arsenals of chemical arms and to verify limits on nuclear testing. Those, however, were...
...began smoking the sheesha, and met his fiancee, during a year and a half of study at the American University of Cairo. Originally Class of '89, Mark went to Cairo halfway through his sophomore year, and spent the following year there as well. He returned to three semesters at Winthrop, and spent his last living off campus on Irving St. His fiancee and he met in Cairo in the fall of '87, and he describes her in contrast to the majority of women he met there...