Word: orderers
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Your article on Evangelist Billy Graham's response to an invitation to a joint speaking appearance in September with Pope John Paul II in Columbia, S.C. ((RELIGION, July 13)), needs to be corrected. At the time of publication, Mr. Graham had hoped that he could rearrange his schedule in order to accept the invitation. Regretfully, he had to decline because of a commitment made nearly two years ago to visit the People's Republic of China. The timing and final briefings for this trip, which are set to begin in September, made it impossible for Mr. Graham to participate...
...abandoned by his White House superiors, all- American boy put upon by hippie (Nields), then big-shot N.Y. lawyer (Liman), etc. But before the great American celebrity machine, which marries Tiny Tim on the Carson show and deploys Itzhak Perlman on The Hollywood Squares, a little humility is in order. Bands of sociologists are already in deep retreat trying to explain the ineffable Vanna White. Pity them and the mavens at work on Oliver North. When bait-and-tackle shops on the Maryland shore hang GO OLLIE signs, it is safer to concede that some things, like the Hula-Hoop...
...discounters and full-service brokerages have produced a wealth of tools to help individual investors keep up with the technical capabilities of the professionals. Schwab sells its customers a personal-computer program called The Equalizer (price: $99.95), which enables an investor to keep track of a portfolio, place an order and call up stock-price quotes, research reports and financial news. Telemet America, one of the several firms offering hand-held devices for monitoring stock quotes, now serves 16 cities and 10,000 customers, 90% of whom are private investors...
Poindexter recognized that the diversion would be as controversial as it was neat. Thus, he said, he approved it without informing Reagan, in order to "provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out." Poindexter argued that in authorizing the deal he was not making policy; he was only carrying out Reagan's established objectives. "My role was to make sure that his policies were implemented," said Poindexter. "In this case, the policy was very clear, and that was to support the contras." After working in the White House since June 1981, he said, "I was convinced...
Gorbachev needs a respite from all-out competition with the West in order to get on with his program. He wants to transform the Soviet Union from a muscle- bound but backward empire into a modern state able to hold its own in the global marketplace of goods and ideas. The U.S.S.R., says Gorbachev, must become a "real superpower." Implicit in that phrase is a stunning confession: take away its 3.7 million men under arms and its 25,000-odd nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union would be a Third World country. There is a note of alarm, even shame...