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...return to communism -- by that name. But in some countries, the communists who now call themselves socialists have given up hardly any of their control of economic, political and social life. President Ion Iliescu rules Romania less brutally than did his executed predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, but with as keen a will to block all reform...
...many things early and easily. Photojournalist on four continents. Writer with a keen eye and the instinct not to wound. Later, wife of French filmmaker Louis Malle (Pretty Baby, Au Revoir les Enfants) and nurturer of a tricoastal marriage in California, New York and France...
...talk in Republican circles that Bush should announce that Baker will stay on as chief of staff for a year after re-election. On that proposal, both Bush and Baker are mum. Bush resented having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, and Baker was not keen to return to a job he had for four years under Ronald Reagan. "In the next two months," said a longtime Baker watcher at the campaign, "we're going to find out whether this is just another case for Jim Baker to win a verdict on or whether...
Imagine that the last in a centuries-long line of vampire exterminators is an airhead Los Angeles adolescent. Imagine that her secret weapon against the children of the night is her "keen fashion sense." Imagine a good, cute actress named Kristy Swanson as BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and a piquantly mixed cast that includes Luke Perry and Donald Sutherland. By now, you are perhaps dreaming that this summer's most pressing need -- for a funny sleeper -- has been fulfilled. Wrong. Or, as Buffy says, "Does the word duh mean anything to you?" It does to director Fran Rubel Kuzui, whose...
...royal fury in Saudi Arabia is fed by more than just Arab-Jewish enmity and the Saudis' abhorrence of publicity. B.C.C.I. flourished because it could provide cover for deals between nominal enemies, especially in the arms trade. The demand for these services was particularly keen in the Middle East, especially when Israel and Arab states were involved. When American arms destined for Iran and Iraq passed through Israel, for example, B.C.C.I. was frequently the broker and financier. One such transfer involved Iraq's acquisition of Silkworm missiles from China in the mid-1980s. Fahd, worried that Iran was winning...