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...competing demands from many sides. "This is not a delicatessen, where you can pick and choose," said a Reagan adviser. While the Administration took pains to maintain a friendly atmosphere -- Shultz even invited Shamir to his home for a breakfast of blueberry pancakes cooked by the Secretary's wife Helena -- strain was evident in President Reagan's statement during the official departure ceremony at the White House. Those who rejected the plan, warned Reagan, would not have to answer to the U.S., but "they'll need to answer to themselves and their people as to why they turned down...
...decompression "relative democracy." In the words of a Brazilian political scientist, the 'distensao' was an effort to "perfect the institutionalization of the national security state and provide for more flexible political representation so as to decrease the levels of dissent and tension that had built up pressure." Maria Helena Moreira Alves, State and Opposition in Military Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press...
...could not slow down. The general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers was in his Johannesburg office at 7 a.m. to arrange for the reinstatement of 37,000 workers who had been fired during the strike. An hour later, Ramaphosa received shocking news: an explosion at the St. Helena gold mine in the Orange Free State had killed ten miners outright and snapped an elevator cable, sending at least 52 other workers plunging to their deaths. For the rest of that day and into the night, Ramaphosa received almost hourly reports on the futile efforts to reach the crushed...
...Victorian cameo of exquisite youth, a headstrong girl trembling on the threshold of womanhood in last year's Oscar-winning A Room with a View. Now Helena Bonham Carter, 21, is blushing again, this time as the heroine of A Hazard of Hearts, an upcoming CBS-TV movie based on the 1949 gothic romance by Barbara Cartland, 85. Author met actress during the filming at a 19th century mansion in Lincolnshire. Jokes Bonham Carter: "She immediately told me how to emanate innocence from my solar plexus. I had a disadvantage because I'm a brunet." Cartland admits that "at first...
...nominations. Maurice, which is also an adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, will cost even less, $2.5 million, and feature two relatively unknown actors, James Wilby as Maurice and Hugh Grant as Clive, his first romance. "Ismail has tremendous charm and substitutes it for the lack of money," explains Helena Bonham Carter, 20, one of the stars of A Room with a View. "You might not get paid very much, but you tend to believe in what you're making. And he feeds you very well...