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FOOTNOTE: OUR GUEST JOURNALISTS: Dwayne Andreas, Archer Daniels Midland; J. Robert Ave, Lorillard; C.M. Bishop Jr., Pendleton Woolen Mills; Howard Cooley, Jockey International; Ronald Davis, Perrier; *J.F.A. de Soet, KLM; Patrick Foley, DHL Corp.; R. Michael Franz, Murata Business Systems; Ernest Gallo, Gallo Winery; James Harvey, Transamerica; Kim Duk-Choong, Daewoo Group; Philip *Knight, Nike; Gunter Kramer, BMW; George Lawrence, American Gas Assn.; Richard Maher, Christian Brothers Winery; Henri Michel, Aerospatiale; Mechlin Moore, Insurance Information Insti*tute; Hideo Nakao, NEC Electronics; Steven Ross, Warner Communications; Anton Rupert, Rembrandt Group; Robert Sinclair, Saab; Preston Robert Tisch, Loews; Graham Whitehead, Jaguar...
Back in Washington, the revolving door was buffeting Baker's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, a former high-ranking diplomat who most recently was the $200,000-a-year president of Kissinger Associates. The firm's global list of clients (including Britain's Midland Bank, South Korea's vast Daewoo Group and Hunt Oil projects in the Middle East) is so extensive that he may have to cross off entire continents to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Eagleburger, who would be in charge when Baker is out of the country, proposes to solve...
American business leaders, who are eager to get Moscow's ear on joint-venture ideas, think they have found just the way to do it. A group of companies led by Dwayne Andreas, chairman of the agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, wants to buy the partly completed U.S. embassy in Moscow and convert it to office space for American companies doing deals there. Construction on the $22 million, eight-story facility was halted in 1985, when the U.S. discovered it was honeycombed with listening devices. If President Bush decides to pursue the proposal, he would have to persuade the Soviets...
...organized -- rarely missing one of the kids' games, throwing labor-intensive birthday parties, volunteering for scoutmaster -- that a friend says she could have run General Motors with time left over. "She always made me feel like a slob," said Marion Chambers, an acquaintance from the Bushes' days in Midland, Texas. Barbara writes thank-you notes the minute she gets home. While other people throw mementos from trips into a box, Barbara has arranged hers in a series of more than 60 giant scrapbooks. It's a wonder she doesn't have more enemies...
...first it looked like a lethal 10 million-to-1 long shot: both engines of a twelve-week-old British Midland Airways Boeing 737 bound for Northern Ireland apparently failed. The plane crashed just short of an emergency landing last week, killing 44 of the 126 aboard...