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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with their international investments. Political upheavals, debt crises, pressures to nationalize foreign holdings -- all can affect millions of dollars in private investments. Kissinger, tight-lipped about the nature of the advice, volunteers, "An obvious case is South Africa. They want to know what do I think is going to happen there? In the Middle East? We give them a political risk assessment." Kissinger's advice to prospective clients is blunt: "If they are looking for hot tips, they are not going to get them. We can be useful in strategy, middle-term decisions." What they get, says Eagleburger, is "Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry Kissinger: Fingerspitzengefuhl | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Said Cornell's Lewis: "What's going to happen [with divestment] will depend on what happens in South Africa...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: S. African Divestment Movement Grows on Nation's College Campuses | 2/15/1986 | See Source »

...satisfactory resolution to the comically sexual conflicts in this film. Oscar's wife throws around vague Casablanca-inspired lines about impossible love, then does her best to make her new found love impossible. The one real tension in the film is whether anything carnal is going to happen between the two lovers. This tension is dragged out and then off-handedly dismissed. Does she really go back to Oscar in the end? Can an Italian housewife find happiness with an Italian husband? Who knows and, at least in this film's case, who cares...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Sorta Sorta | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

...Synar gave these interests just what they wanted. America needs Gramm-Rudman because it allows Congressmen to pass the buck while saving the country big bucks. The law mandates a reduction in next year's deficit to $144 billion, shrinking to zero by 1991. Cuts like this will never happen without Gramm-Rudman. Reagan will continue to push for more defense and less social spending while Congress does the opposite. We end up with a lot more of both. Gramm-Rudman is crucial because it forces compromise. The mandatory cuts in the law are admittedly indiscriminate. However...

Author: By Kris Kobach, | Title: Missing the Point on Gramm-Rudman | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...letter, Markey asked for estimates of the explosive force needed to breach the generator, a list of ways in which that could happen and an estimate of the explosive force on the Challenger flight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass. Rep. Demands Explanation on Booster | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

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