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Last month a federal jury found that Bunker and Herbert, along with their brother Lamar, had conspired to corner the silver market in 1980. The court ordered them to pay a judgment of more than $130 million to a Peruvian mineral-marketing company that lost money in the debacle. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONAL FINANCE: Billionaire Bankrupts | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Still, Sasso has his moments in this dizzying game of parry-and-thrust politics. Last Thursday, for example, the Bush campaign plotted a lightning raid on Boston, where the Vice President would dramatize his law-and-order thematics by accepting the endorsement of a Republican-leaning police union. This was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's The Year Of the Handlers | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

In a speech last week Gorbachev offered to give up some Soviet military facilities in Viet Nam if the U.S. pulls its own naval and air bases out of the Philippines. In and of itself, that trade would lopsidedly favor the U.S.S.R. and is therefore unacceptable. But as a general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Roh will also have to pay attention to the students, who remain a volatile factor. After its success in bringing about democratization, the student movement drifted in search of an issue and finally settled on a new cause: the reunification of North and South. Since nearly all Southerners yearn for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Breaking into the Big Leagues | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Exactly so, said many critics. The Frecce Tricolori have a reputation for recklessness. Nutarelli, the oldest on the team, was a daredevil known for a breathtaking stunt called the bell ringer, in which he killed his engine in midair, plummeted downward and restarted it in time to pull up before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Hellfire from The Heavens | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

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