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...Feed the Engine. Even a hint that the international monetary rescue agency might not be able to do its job weakens confidence in the currency structure of the entire free world. Keenly aware of this, I.M.F. Managing Director Per Jacobsson of Sweden went to Vienna determined to wrest from the most prosperous member nations a pledge to put up the money for a special $6 billion reserve that the Fund could call on in a crisis. Since all I.M.F. nations have a stake in the health of the dollar-a large percentage of their own reserves are in dollars-they...
...airliner's right wingtip. "He just sat there, where all the passengers could see him," said Pan Am Captain Tony Duff. When Duff's plane entered a convenient layer of stratus cloud, the MIG peeled off and vanished, but the maneuver was an obvious hint of what could come...
...abstract landscapist"; perhaps she is both and more. "With present techniques, an architect can build whatever he wants to," she says. "Why shouldn't I be able to build what I like in a painting?" Painter Vieira da Silva builds intricate constructions that never say, but only hint at what they...
...Cuba badgered the conference into deploring the U.S. base at Guantanamo, but no mention was made of the Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism that crushed Hungary and swallowed up the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania...
...toughest and most sensitive in Washington. It requires keen understanding of the equations of politics. The President's man on Capitol Hill must know instinctively which Congressmen will respond to deference or flattery, which ones require threats or pressures from home, which ones will leap at the hint of presidential support in the next campaign. O'Brien possesses such understanding in good measure. And he is an expert in the political uses of power, patronage and persuasion...