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Guile, however, had no role in the ninth round, when Leonard finished winning the crowd and started finishing the fight. In terrible peril on the ropes, he twice flurried his way out and left Hagler shaking apart and griping aloud for a different kind of fight. Somewhere Leonard found the legs to obey his corner elf Angelo Dundee, who set him to dancing like Ali, complete with funny faces and windmills. Hagler smiled sadly. Before the last round began, Leonard raised a beckoning glove to the crowd, and by following suit Hagler only confirmed whose game they had been playing...
...advocate for young people, the nation's poorest and most vulnerable group. As founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Edelman has ensured that even though the young cannot vote or make campaign contributions, they are not ignored in Washington. In her just published book, Families in Peril (Harvard University Press; $15.00), she contends, "As adults we are responsible for meeting the needs of children. It is our moral obligation. We brought about their births and their lives, and they cannot fend for themselves...
...even greater peril, in the view of TIME's economists, is the effect of the debt burden on U.S. corporations and consumers in the event of recession. So extended are American businesses and individuals that the resulting bankruptcies and attendant hardships would probably be more severe than during any downturn in recent memory. Says Board Member Lester Thurow, an economist at M.I.T.: "You are going to have more personal defaults than normal, more corporate defaults than normal, more Third World debtor defaults than normal -- all of those dominoes tumbling at the same time...
...that the Communists have not been held accountable for violations they have committed. Aquino made her position clear at midweek during her address before 400 soldiers at Camp Aguinaldo. "Send this message out to all our troops so that none may be misled to relax their vigilance to their peril and that of the people they are charged to protect," she told the troops. "The new armed forces will resume operations against the insurgents. We shall have law-and-order throughout the country...
...only way for European countries to insulate themselves against that peril, TIME's economists agreed, is to boost domestic demand and become less reliant on exports. The onus will be on West Germany, Europe's most powerful economy, to take the initiative. Last year the Germans resisted pressure to cut interest rates and lift demand by promising that strong growth was already in the pipeline. Further stimulus, German officials argued, would raise the risk of an overheated economy and renewed inflation. But West Germany's 2.75% growth rate in 1986 fell short of expectations as the high-flying mark...