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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Financial experts are beginning to recognize that Washington will be unable to control drug money unless the U.S. compels offshore financial institutions to make their books "transparent" enough to show the true owners of the money. In the end, the Colombian drug cartels are about to force the world to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

George Bush normally distrusts "big moments," and this one did not last long. His chummy session with Mikhail Gorbachev in Malta restored momentum to U.S.-Soviet relations and gave a boost to what Bush called his "new thinking" about the changes in the Communist world. Yet the President had barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Until recently Bush was a member of the conservative chorus warning that a bad arms-control deal was worse than no deal at all, as critics reminded him. "Setting an arbitrary time frame for arms-control treaties to be completed and signed is not wise," said Sam Nunn, chairman of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The prospect of inch-by-inch progress in Vienna and Geneva only underscored warnings that there will be no quick "peace dividend" for the overstretched federal budget. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's planned $180 billion in Pentagon cuts through 1995 amount to little more than deletions in the military's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The great variety of symptoms that confronted the Communists of East Germany and Czechoslovakia last week were not morbid, but they did carry the risk of metastasizing into something dangerous. As exhilarating as the rapid pace of change may be, the tight grip of party rule that seemed unshakable just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Out of Control? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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