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...Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party won a landslide victory over the Liberals after campaigning, among other issues, against a number of Trudeau-era restrictions on foreign investment. Last week's speech, which marked Mulroney's second appearance in the U.S. since taking office, indicated that the Prune Minister intends to make good on his promises. Said he: "Our government has embarked on a fundamental change in our economic direction...
Ustinov and his crew, who had not been close enough to witness the shooting, rushed to the Prune Minister's bungalow. "It was a scene of confusion," he said. "The security men were still running around, shaken and unbelieving. One minute there was gunfire, and afterward the birds in the trees were singing. The security men kept us there for five hours, polite all the time, but they wanted to be sure we didn't have something on film that they could use as evidence. Sadly...
Diplomats will undoubtedly argue over whether Hirohito's statement actually constituted an apology. But the display of Japanese contrition, later reinforced by an eloquent apology by Japanese Prune Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, clearly satisfied Chun. The South Korean President cited an old Korean proverb: "The ground hardens after a rainfall," meaning that close friends become even closer after a quarrel...
...Labor leader met with Shamir at Jerusalem's King David Hotel for further talks on the possibility of forming a national unity government. Though the two sides have been discussing such a step for almost three weeks, Shamir so far has refused to accept Peres as the Prune Minister in a Labor-Likud union. After the meeting both men agreed that progress had been made, but a pact remained elusive. Likud and Labor representatives also met to settle differences over foreign policy. Though both parties agreed that Israel should withdraw its 22,000 troops from southern Lebanon, there...
...head-David Stockman and the Office of Management and Budget, Donald Regan and the Treasury Department, Paul Volcker and the Federal Reserve, and Martin Feldstein and the Council of Economic Advisers. When a story focuses on one of them, you always have to talk to the other three." The prune focus of this week's story is CEA Chairman Feldstein. To get a feeling for the man and his ideas, Beckwith interviewed Feldstein at length in his corner office in Washington's Old Executive Office Building...