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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told him there was one question that always kept coming up. What would happen if trouble developed inside the Soviet Union and they had to use force to put it down? I said I always refused to answer such a hypothetical question, but Americans were asking it. He did not give a direct answer, but he strongly implied, 'Look, I'm going to succeed...
...drama of two men in the blustery Mediterranean closing the book on 40 years of animosity is one of the surprises that history deals up in this strange world. "The changes are so monumental. So different. But it did not seem overwhelming when we sat down. Two reasonable people sat down with their staffs. Even the contentious matters were brought up without rancor. When I first met him in Moscow when I was Vice President and brought up human rights, he grew very heated. This time he talked very rationally, not rancorously...
...Michael Cooper (Genesis/Hedley; $595). Wherever the artists or arrivistes made the scene in 1960s London, Cooper was there, camera in hand. For those craving a (costly) glimpse of the time when the Beatles and the Stones ruled the realm -- "For a few years then we were just flying," recalls one of the bit players -- comes this collection of 600 works by their court photographer...
...high-tech wash cycle that often takes less than 48 hours, drug smugglers can turn cocaine-tinged bills into such squeaky-clean assets as money-market deposits and car dealerships. One danger: drug lords and other lawbreakers are believed to be buying valuable chunks of the American economy. Andrew Tobias on the impact of falling housing prices...
...imbroglio at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to go undetected. But the gravest worries were triggered by concerns about the solvency of more than $5 trillion in federal credit and insurance programs that cover everything from bank deposits to student loans and Third World aid. While no one expects all such programs to fail, bad debts and write-offs are steadily increasing. "Losses from these programs have already cost the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and have had a significant impact on the federal deficit," warns Charles Bowsher, the U.S. Comptroller General. Adds Michigan Democrat John Dingell...