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...dead, right wing and left. He had managed to anger both. Martin cared about the simple people; he would spend his weekends offering Mass and teaching first aid in the impoverished countryside. I found him a reliable source of information, especially because he oversaw the country's least biased public-opinion polls. A few years ago, a colleague asked Martin if there was any hope for El Salvador. "The only hope," he said, "is in the people who have been able to survive." Sadly, Martin...
Nonetheless, Administration officials confide that so far as they are aware, Bush is doing only tactical planning, concentrating on getting through the summit without a major substantive mistake or public relations flop. The President and his briefers seem to have invested far more time in considering how to counter a surprise Gorbachev proposal than in pondering what Europe -- and the U.S. role in it -- will be like ten years from now. Says one foreign policy official: "We've got plenty of philosophy and vision for 'a Europe whole and free' ((one of Bush's standard phrases)). What...
...exodus of thousands of well-trained plumbers, bus drivers and doctors has only added to the misery, shutting down entire assembly lines, paralyzing health care, even forcing policemen to drive public buses. Says Sylko Roehle, 17, a machinist: "We saw what Poland and Hungary were doing; we heard Gorbachev. Everyone felt, Why are we being left behind...
...American public opinion must understand that we are not asking for a gift or for debt forgiveness. We want a system of economic relations that will give us guarantees so we can plan our economies and develop our countries...
Every game has winners and losers. The winners of this one are some collectors, some dealers and, in particular, the major auctioneers -- Christie's and Sotheby's -- in whose salesrooms the prices are set. The losers are museums and, through museums, the public...