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...Despite reassuring words from the White House and Treasury Secretary James Baker, the unruly mob on Wall Street saw only the threat of rising interest rates and faltering economic growth. "I fear we will have the worst of possible worlds, with high interest rates and a recession," said Rudy Oswald, chief economist...
...many in Dallas, the Texas School Book Depository has been a monument to the most shameful day in the city's history. For years tourists have trekked to the red-brick building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy. But the structure was closed to the public until 1981, when it was declared a Texas historic site, and visitors still are not allowed near Oswald's sixth-floor sniper perch...
...harder to imagine a return of the investigative journalist who digs through the smoldering ashes of two-decades-old news in David Quammen's The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Doubleday; 350 pages; $17.95). The story is built on three staples of spy fiction: the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald spent time in the Soviet Union and must have had contact with the KGB; the inability of the CIA, whenever confronted with a Soviet defector, to know whether he is a font of information or a plant aimed at disinformation; and the too often paralyzing fear among senior spooks that...
...establishing motives and motifs, Dante goes productively crazy. Is Tuck to be stuck in a rabbit? Then there will be hares everywhere: mechanical bunnies in Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through...
That situation should bode well for short-term U.S. competitiveness, but discontent among American workers is rising. Says Harley Shaiken, a labor economist at the University of California at San Diego: "It amounts to a reversal of the American dream." Agrees Rudy Oswald, chief economist for the AFL-CIO: "There is a growing feeling of 'We won't take any more of this...