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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the liberal response to Reagan's message usually went something like this. Reagan says, "There's a useless layer of bureaucracy up on top of HEW [the Department of Health, Education and Welfare]. And it costs HEW three dollars in overhead to deliver one dollar to a needy person...
There are people who would like to do it. But given the lack of support among the people and the fact that the international situation is not favorable for such an attempt, I see no possibility of it happening...
Perez's odyssey has been much more dramatic. Not only is he changing his habits of thinking and governing, but he is trying to change the way his country develops. Like Mitterrand, Perez has been a socialist since his youth. He is still vice president, under Willy Brandt, of the Socialist International. During an earlier presidential term in the '70s, he nationalized Venezuela's oil industry, slapped controls on prices and interest rates, mandated wage boosts, increased regulation of agriculture and made government-subsidized loans to low-income city dwellers, peasants and small businessmen. Perez personified the socialist conviction that...
During the next ten years, Perez regarded as proteges two young fellow socialists -- Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, who became Prime Minister of Spain in 1982, and Alan Garcia Perez, who has been President of Peru since 1985. Much like his neighbor Mitterrand, Gonzalez has become an apostle of "market socialism," and he is virtually assured of re-election when Spaniards go to the polls later this month. Garcia, by contrast, stuck with policies similar to those Perez had followed in his own first term. Peru now faces economic disaster, and Garcia is almost certain to be defeated next year. After...
...name is Helen, as in Hell 'n' back. Allure and danger play on the dramatic planes of her wide-screen face, which looks like Diane Sawyer's pressed against a windshield. When her lips crack open into a wide, diagonal smile, some Mae West line seems ready to emerge. "Come up and see me sometime." And Frank Keller (Al Pacino), a good cop with no life, does just that. Though Helen is a suspect in the grisly murder case he is investigating, he can't wait to get to her. The feeling must be mutual: before making love to Frank...