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...Barbie, but Bolivian military leaders with close ties to the ex-Nazi businessman had refused. When leftist civilians took office in Bolivia last October, President François Mitterrand's government decided to try again. This time the Bolivians agreed to cooperate. In an apparent effort to pave the way for Barbie's expulsion, Bolivian police picked him up on Jan. 25 and charged him with fraud in connection with a $10,000 loan from the state. Barbie immediately repaid the debt, plus interest, but it did him little good. Instead of releasing him, Bolivian officials...
...amount that we must pay annually on debt service. This year we are paying approximately just a little over $100 billion on debt service on interest to loans. That's $100 billion wasted so far as budget is concerned. It doesn't buy a single skill, it does not pave a single mile of road, it doesn't do anything. If we are able to get interest rates back to levels they were four years ago, it would save $30 billion of the cost of government. Those are three ways. The most obvious way is to get the economy working...
...Poland. As a sign of its self-confidence, the government last week announced that it was releasing all but seven of the estimated 200 people who were still being held under martial law. But Jaruzelski had also hoped to persuade a majority of Poles that martial law would pave the way to a better life through a process of gradual reform. To assess how martial law has affected the lives of individual Poles today, TIME Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Richard Hornik spent some time with a farmer, an intellectual and a factory worker. He reports...
...lameduck session of the 97th Congress seemed to be at once bogged down by cantankerous obstructionism and buffeted by legislative grandstanding. Efforts to pass overdue appropriations bills for the fiscal year that began last October (the ostensible reason for the special session) were a dismal failure. The attempt to pave the road to prosperity with a nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax was stalled by a renegade filibuster. Ronald Reagan and his congressional critics were still at swords' points over the MX missile, and no one dared even mention Social Security, a beast that some had foolishly dreamed the special...
Unemployment also helped pave the trail for Democratic gubernatorial victories, particularly that of former Peace Corps Director Richard Celeste in Ohio. His opponent, Congressman Clarence Brown, was an ardent backer of Reaganomics, not the most popular philosophy in a state where 13.8% of the work force is idle. A wave of discontent from the depressed steel towns of western Pennsylvania almost deprived Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh of what was supposed to be an easy reelection. New Jersey Businessman Frank Lautenberg hammered away at Reaganomics to help overcome Republican Millicent Fenwick's personal popularity and win a Senate seat...