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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (PBS). Hitherto unseen footage of the great filmmaker at work. Assembled with uncommon care and intelligence, this entry in the American Masters series illuminated a genius...
...their two-day conclave, the 31-member Council of Institutional Investors, a group of pension-fund managers who control assets of nearly $200 billion, had endorsed a ringing "Shareholders Bill of Rights," intended as a challenge to every major U.S. corporate boardroom. Among other things, the group of hitherto largely passive investors drawn chiefly from the public sector demanded a new voice in all "fundamental decisions which could affect corporate performance and growth." Predicted Brenda Steinhour, a money- management executive who observed the session: "Proxy power is going to be a major issue in the world of investments...
...Namphy government decides to hold elections, there will be no dearth of potential leaders. Ex-President Daniel Fignole has returned to Haiti, after living for almost 29 years in New York City, as have leaders of the hitherto outlawed Communist and Socialist parties. Colonel Octave Cayard, who in 1970 led a failed coast guard mutiny against the Duvaliers, also arrived earlier this month. The church-run Radio Soleil has counseled Haitians to be patient. One of its oft-aired Creole adages: "Being in a hurry doesn't make the day break." That may be true, but the Haitian people...
...diplomats kidnaped in Beirut on Sept. 30 had been released in that city, 28 days after the body of a fourth Soviet kidnap victim, Consular Secretary Arkadi Katkov, was found with a bullet through the head. The P.L.O. had nothing to do with the Soviet kidnapings, for which the hitherto unknown Islamic Liberation Organization claimed responsibility...
...arms control still seems to hinge on the one issue where both sides remain adamant: SDI. The threat of an American strategic defense system probably had a lot to do with Moscow's readiness to return to the bargaining table and discuss the deep missile cuts it had hitherto rejected out of hand. Some in the Administration still harbor hopes that Star Wars might be the ultimate bargaining chip. Without some flexibility on SDI down the road, it could instead become the ultimate stumbling block, the issue that causes the Soviets to act on their hints that they might, once...