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...last week, the biggest such challenge since 1953, presents Honecker with a far graver crisis than the refugee tide. It threatens both to fracture civil order and to splinter the once monolithic regime. The confused leadership ricocheted between stern warnings and appeasing gestures. As Honecker greeted visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Yao Yilin, the official news agency ADN warned that "there is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the counterrevolutionary unrest in Beijing." But the Politburo's subsequent statement suggests that many within the ruling elite were drawing different conclusions from the Tiananmen debacle. Reports circulated that the Politburo...
...popular news personality, as well as the best interviewer among the morning-show women. Norville, who joined the network as anchor of NBC News at Sunrise in 1987, has yet to prove herself with a national audience. Her chief success to date: as correspondent for Bad Girls, a prime-time special about troubled teens that drew sensational ratings in August. Her fast rise has reportedly miffed many colleagues at NBC News. Last week she found herself the target of criticism for appearing as "anchor" at a Philip Morris sales presentation in February. Though the network had approved her appearance...
Halfway through an 18-day re-election campaign, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez finds himself attacked on several fronts. Once friendly trade unions complain that the Socialist leader has forsaken his party's traditional ideology by freezing social benefits and allowing 16% unemployment. Businessmen, who still applaud Gonzalez's successful campaign to attract foreign investment and reduce inflation, now fret about high interest rates and a growing trade deficit...
...after seven years in office, Gonzalez -- and, apparently, the electorate -- remains unfazed by the criticism; he is expected to lead his party to a third consecutive victory on Oct. 29. The Prime Minister feels confident enough about the outcome to leave the campaign trail and visit Washington this week, his first official trip to the U.S. since 1984 and his first substantive meeting with President George Bush since the two countries renewed their defense agreement last year and arranged for the transfer of 72 U.S. Air Force fighters from Spain to Italy...
Gonzalez talked for two hours with correspondent Margot Hornblower and TIME's Jane Walker at the neoclassical Moncloa Palace, the Prime Minister's ! official residence. Excerpts...