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...Lone Ranger. This Bush is also the Great Schmoozer. He prefers consensus to confrontation. He not only values his relationships with foreign leaders but actually listens to them. Most are counseling patience. An aide says that the President has been especially impressed by the cautions of Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of the Falklands. She believes the embargo should be given more of a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: America Abroad: Resisting the Gangbusters Option | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...faces an era of formidable reconstruction. It will take years of effort to repair the damage caused by division and, in the East, by four decades of communism. It will mean putting the East's downtrodden economy into working order and soothing worries on both sides of the old Iron Curtain: those of West Germans about paying for unity's immense costs and those of former Easterners about being second-class citizens in the united country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany And Now There Is One | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

Unfortunately, my memories of dandruff aren't so great. Besides the botched effort at romance (read on, read on), I keep thinking of those damn Head & Shoulders commercials. You know the ones. "It's about your flakes," the healthy athletic dude says confidentially to his hip pal while pumping iron...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: A Song of Selsun Blues | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...wasn't until later in the evening that he confessed: he found Lee; they argued; he broke her nose, and bludgeoned her in the back of the head three times with the blunt side of a tire iron. He then pulled her body out of sight. He returned nine hours later to the park to commit an act of necrophilia, and bury her body in a shallow grave under a bush...

Author: By Jonathan E. Morgan, | Title: Friendly Redemption | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

...bloodshed. On the other hand, Mandela contends with some justification that right-wingers in De Klerk's security forces are aiding Buthelezi and that the President has been reluctant to put a tighter leash on them. Last week he charged that De Klerk's "Iron Fist" crackdown policies in the townships ignored the problem and that peaceful negotiations were in jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Pilgrim's Slow Progress | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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