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Some Reagan Administration officials predict that the contra program will not be irremediably damaged by the current scandal. They observe that there is no movement afoot at present to halt payment of the remaining $40 million in U.S. aid. "I think when this is all over, Congress will still be willing to back the program," Elliott Abrams said earlier this month. "We have a huge national interest in promoting democracy there." Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards pressed the point further in a Washington Post op-ed piece. The Congressman exhorted his legislative brethren to remember that they had approved contra...
...Angeles, where Chandler Jarrell (Murphy) is a finder of lost children. He is, according to ancient scrolls, the "Chosen One," destined to rescue the boy. Persuaded by Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis), a beautiful Tibetan, Jarrell takes on this unusual case. The rest of the plot is easy to predict, but Eddie Murphy is hard to resist...
Evidently, it is difficult to accurately predict the course of events in Iran in the next few years. But there are sufficient reasons to abandon the U.S. policy of neglecting Iran simply because it is ruled by a radical fundamentalist class...
Sources at Interior predict that years will pass before the debate is settled, and environmentalists are playing for time. Even if limited drilling is permitted by Congress, a decade could elapse before oil and gas companies emerge from the maze of additional environmental-impact studies that must be prepared prior to exploitation. By then, the refuge's defenders hope, Administration attitudes will be different...
...more than ten years. Layoffs, shutdowns, production cutbacks and plummeting profits have infected virtually every one of Japan's manufacturing industries. While service businesses, including banks and insurance companies, are flourishing, one in eight major manufacturers reported a loss for the six-month period that ended last September. Economists predict that Japan's gross national product will grow by just 2.3% for the fiscal year ending in March 1987, the lowest level since 1974, when GNP dropped by .4%. Even the promise of lifetime employment, a cornerstone of the country's social structure, is crumbling. Says Toshio Isago, an executive...