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Regan had long ignored allies' complaints about the U.S. budget deficit and concerns at home about an overvalued U.S. dollar that had led to a dismal American trade deficit. Baker reversed that stance with the September 1985 Plaza accord, a five-nation cooperative attempt to hasten the dollar's decline. Baker tried to use the dollar's continuing fall as a diplomatic tool. His aim: to chivy West Germany and Japan into expanding their domestic economies, while counting on the U.S. currency's drop in value to start reversing the ugly trade figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge for A Great Persuader | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...Border Guard Day in the Soviet Union, a national celebration that honors the troops protecting the country's sprawling frontiers. Tourists and Muscovites strolling through Red Square that evening looked up to see a small single-engine plane coming in low from the south. It circled the great plaza, barely clearing the red brick walls of the Kremlin and buzzing the Lenin Mausoleum before finally touching down. At about 7:30 p.m. the little craft came to rest on the cobblestones behind onion-domed St. Basil's Cathedral. Bystanders scattered. Police gaped in astonishment. Official black sedans sped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Welcome to Moscow | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...after all, one faction of Taiwan's increasingly active opposition movement has urged more confrontations to demand an end to 39 years of martial law. Wearing green headbands and carrying balloons with such slogans as LIFT MARTIAL LAW, RETURN TO THE CONSTITUTION, 3,000 vocal opposition supporters filled the plaza in front of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and listened to opposition leaders denounce the Kuomintang regime of President Chiang Ching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan Quiet Victories in Taipei | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Each week the knot of men who spend the day hanging out in the central plaza grows. The older ones, their heads invariably protected against the searing spring sun by white straw hats, mutter occasionally to one another, then lose themselves in the local paper. The younger ones, several of them wearing BORN IN THE U.S.A. T shirts, banter loudly and watch the girls go by. Their burgeoning numbers are the first sign that the flow of Mexicans seeking jobs and a better life in the U.S. is beginning to reverse itself. American cars with license plates from Illinois, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Sad Return of the Prodigal Sons | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...late afternoon, the sun is unbearable, and the odor of the surrounding pig farms has drifted into the center of town. Oblivious to both, the newly returned residents make small talk as they lounge on metal benches in the plaza. In the language of the Tarascan Indians who ruled the area before the Spanish conquest, Huandacareo means "place of speakers." Now, 500 years later, there is little else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Sad Return of the Prodigal Sons | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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