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...Cultural Revolution. Yet they allowed audiences to see a satirical work called Rubik's Cube that lampooned various aspects of Chinese life. Faced with criticism on so many fronts, reformers launched counterattacks to keep their revolution rolling. Premier Zhao Ziyang's State Council issued new regulations urging plant managers to establish direct links with their customers and suppliers in order to skirt the ponderous Chinese bureaucracy. Peking also promoted public debate over whether state enterprises should issue stock and how to encourage investment capital...
Jaruzelski is banking on Moscow's support to help implement the economic- reform plan endorsed by the congress last week. The program includes giving greater authority to plant managers and holding down wages to help beat inflation. Jaruzelski also hopes to boost exports to aid in repaying some of Poland's $31 billion foreign debt. He would like to enlist the aid of the U.S. as well. But a resumption of normal relations is unlikely, since Warsaw refuses to meet the U.S. demand for a "national reconciliation" that would recognize the opposition and end human-rights abuses...
Rumania has been hard hit by the disaster at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April. After the accident spread radioactive fallout across Eastern Europe, the European Community banned imports of crops and livestock from the region for three weeks. The embargo slashed the Bucharest regime's foreign-exchange earnings and forced the cash-short country to miss several million dollars in debt payments to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other Western lenders...
With benefit so slight, the FDA needs to be convinced that the risks are minimal. But the federal agency appears to be almost alone in moving cautiously. Upjohn has already spent nearly $26 million retooling its plant in Kalamazoo. Regaine will not come cheap; a year's treatment with the prescription-only lotion may run around $1,000. But no one doubts there will be plenty of takers. Some resourceful men are creating a moonshine tonic on their own. The key ingredient: mashed hypertension pills, containing--what else?--minoxidil...
Much of the world's attention was focused on Ukraine in late April and early May, following the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was the latest in the republic's history of catastrophies, which include a devastating famine in 1933 and repeated foreign conquests...