Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rakowski took a different approach. As the government continued the daunting task of reaching a compromise with the leadership of Solidarity, the banned trade union, Rakowski invited four independent and opposition figures to join his Cabinet last week. Though all four rebuffed him, Rakowski promised to hold the seats open in case they changed their minds. As he admitted to TIME last week, "Our centralized system for decades has limited individuals' abilities to adapt, to take initiatives. We have to get rid of all those blockages...
...commit himself. However, as the report points out, most modern Presidents, including Reagan, promised to be more accessible to reporters, only to retreat as their terms wore on. Former NBC News correspondent Marvin Kalb, director of the Barone Center, is convinced that politicians cannot be truly successful without being open to the press. But his experience as a reporter forces him to admit that they can avoid the press with little damage. "The Bush campaign has kept its distance from the press," he says. "The Dukakis camp started out maintaining a constant dialogue, but found out there wasn't much...
...rolled-up cloth rests in a silver box behind bulletproof glass. Said local cab driver Angelo Di Conza: "Until they prove how the image got there -- and the technology to make such an image didn't exist in the 14th century -- then I think the scientific question remains open...
...film is an adventure too, a tightrope dance between sociology and sentiment. Salaam Bombay! deserves a broad audience, not just to open American eyes to plights of hunger and homelessness abroad, but to open American minds to the vitality of a cinema without rim shots and happy endings...
...BCCI's drug-money network. Posing as money launderers, "Musella," "Erickson" and other agents gradually infiltrated drug-trafficking circles. In May 1986 Gonzalo Moro Jr., reputed to be the chief launderer for the Medellin cartel, approached one of the agents with a proposition. If the agent were to open some Florida bank accounts and help Moro launder cash, Moro would pay a commission on each transaction...