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First Blood made $57 million at the box office, a substantial though not spectacular success. Since then the public's receptivity to tales that lend nobility to the Viet Nam War has grown. Films like Missing in Action and Uncommon Valor, both of them about missions to rescue American POWs in Viet Nam, drew big audiences. On TV, Viet Nam veterans, once portrayed as troubled loners, are now the sympathetic crime fighters of such hit shows as The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. First Blood scored unusually high ratings in a telecast on NBC last month, and orders for video...
...economic sanctions and divestment target U.S. corporate involvement and effective support for the South African government, Bok stubbornly clings to the fiction that Harvard's continued investments in South Africa-related companion can lead to some meaningful change in South Africa. If he is concerned enough about apartheid to lend his name to anti-apartheid legislation, he should not balk at a prime opportunity to enlist something far more powerful to help the cause: Harvard's millions...
...bring the blood pressure of depositors down a few points. Even so, the $1,000 limit sparked bitter complaints from small companies that needed to meet payrolls and from customers who need money for large purchases. A few thrifts affronted consumers with the final insult by offering to lend them money instead, at rates of about...
...improving picture, however, is pockmarked by a potentially serious new problem: management missteps. Deregulation has enabled thrifts to plunge into new, riskier ventures in areas with which many of them are unfamiliar. While thrifts once concentrated on inherently stable home loans, they now lend money for everything from casino construction to consumer vacation trips. In most cases the thrifts simply want to earn enough to account for the competitive rates they are paying to savers. But in a few other cases managers have been overtaken by lofty growth goals and carelessness. Example: federal regulators last month bailed out Beverly Hills...
...anniversary has also been used as a propaganda tool against the West. Soviet victory speeches have minimized the U.S. Lend-Lease program, which provided Moscow with more than $10 billion in food and war materiel between 1941 and 1945. At the same time, the Soviets have portrayed West Germany and the U.S. as Hitler's successors. Soviet commentators have accused the West Germans of "revanchism," or wanting to retake German territories lost in the war, and have condemned Reagan's Bitburg visit as paying homage to the Nazis. The Soviets gloss over Moscow's nonaggression pact with Hitler, which lasted...