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...addition to the known deaths, facultymembers have been abducted and received deaththreats, while students who have organizedpoltical protests and demonstrations have beendenounced in full-page newspaper ads, Hernandezsaid...
TIME has obtained a confidential memorandum that Nixon sent to Reagan in July 1986 after a session with Gorbachev in Moscow. The 26-page document captures the essence of Nixon's exercise in discreet diplomacy. It shows him trying to persuade Gorbachev that he can do business with Reagan precisely because Reagan is a conservative. And then, in reporting on the meeting, it shows him trying to persuade the President that he should seek a major strategic arms deal, which Nixon implied could be achieved with only minor concessions on Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the Star Wars...
When the brown, 690-page congressional report on the Iran-contra fiasco finally thumped onto desks in Washington last week, one of the officials most keenly interested in the scandal vowed not to pick it up. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh cannot use any testimony that witnesses gave to the House and Senate committees under grants of immunity. Walsh and his staff of 28 lawyers, 20 FBI agents and six IRS investigators must build their own criminal cases against any lawbreakers. Nonetheless, the tightly reasoned, judiciously stated majority report, signed by all of the committees' 15 Democrats as well...
...before their son was born, the information was contained in two sentences midway through a long profile, where it belonged. Then the Washington Post, which had done a detailed story pointing out other discrepancies in Robertson's bio, used that new fact as the centerpiece of a second front-page piece making much of how he had misled the Post about the wedding date...
...worst-case scenario that John Hughes has worked out for tight-wired Neal Page (Steve Martin) in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, those travails are merely the beginning. Heading home from a marketing meeting in New York City and rudely denied his customary first-class air accommodations, he is wedged into a center seat in the tourist section between an old gentleman who snores and a chubby gentleman who chats. The latter is Del Griffith (John Candy), a salesman of shower-curtain rings and not at all Neal's kind of guy. He dresses funny, is too eager to be helpful...