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...Hawke of Australia, "TIME has scooped its competitors." While other Australian publications had been planning projects to mark the country's 200th birthday, TIME AUSTRALIA was unveiling its lavish special issue ahead of most of the pack. At a ceremony in Melbourne two weeks ago to launch the 128-page commemorative edition, Hawke declared, "In TIME AUSTRALIA, we have an example of an outstandingly successful news venture based on the world's greatest magazine, but already becoming identifiably Australian in character...
...first seemed to point to a setback in the Soviet leader's own political standing. But two days after Yeltsin's downfall, in a display of glasnost unprecedented even in the Gorbachev era, the party paper Pravda ran a detailed account of the sacking. Starting on the front page and occupying the entire 16-column spread of the second and third pages, the story left no doubt that Gorbachev not only acquiesced in the political assassination of his protege but took the lead in arranging...
...budget deficit. Declared West Germany's Finance Minister, Gerhard Stoltenberg: "The center is Washington. That's where the difficulties are coming from." In the U.S., a group of more than 150 business leaders, lawyers, educators and former Cabinet members, calling themselves the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, took out a two-page advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post to demand spending cuts of at least $30 billion to $40 billion in fiscal 1988. Said the group, which included a range of prominent liberals (Edmund Muskie) as well as conservatives (William Simon): "We recognize that the bold political action...
...President's responsibility is firmly fixed in the Constitution: "He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." In a stinging 450-page report certain to trigger heated controversy, a majority of the congressional Iran-contra committees this week will charge that Ronald Reagan failed to fulfill that solemn obligation. Says Warren Rudman, the feisty New Hampshire Senator who was one of three Republicans to join the 18-member majority: "The report deals with the responsibilities of the presidency, and I think it's fair...
...unusual bipartisan harmony. But reaching a consensus on their final report was more difficult: all six Republican House members and two of the five Republican Senators refused to sign the majority report because they thought it too tough on Reagan and his men. They will instead issue a 150-page dissent...