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That may not happen for a while. The dollar has been falling partly because of the meeting last September of the finance ministers and central bankers of Japan, Britain, West Germany, France and the U.S. The officials agreed to help the U.S. reduce the value of its currency in an effort to trim the dangerously high American trade deficit, which hit a record $148.5 billion last year. These industrial powers, known as the Group of Five, were convinced that bringing the dollar down could help avert a trade war. At the time, the U.S. Congress was particularly incensed about America...
...establishment of a seven-member human rights-committee last week only heightened concern. Committee Chairman Jose Diokno announced that the government would reopen an investigation into the assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno, who was gunned down in August 1983 at Manila International Airport. When asked what would happen if the committee found evidence that former Marcos officials now allied with the Aquino government were involved in the murder, Diokno replied, "If they knew about it and did nothing, they are at least administratively guilty...
...last is more than a glib question, for 9 1/2 Weeks, the movie everyone is purportedly talking about, has got to be the most torporific cinematic experience in recent memory. And one can thank Adrian Lyne for making the impossible happen: turning a potentially torrid sado-masochistic relationship between a beautiful supermodel (Kim Basinger) and a stud actor (Mickey Rourke) into an emotional and sexual wasteland...
Gorbachev seemed eager to stop talking about change and to begin making it happen. The conclusion of the ten-day congress preceded by only a few days the anniversary of the Soviet leader's first year in power, a period that has seen a new push for less liquor and more labor, tighter work discipline and more thrift. It was high time, Gorbachev made clear, to begin realizing those goals. In its final week, the congress rubber-stamped two separate economic outlines that bear the Gorbachev seal. Both emphasize the rebuilding of obsolete factories and concentration on machine-tool production...
...would like to have done it," Fusco said. "But it doesn't happen every time...