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...reputed to have welshed on deals before. Still, the word in Washington last week was that General Manuel Antonio Noriega had reached a tentative agreement with the Reagan Administration to step down as commander of the Panama defense forces. The terms of the agreement remain fuzzy, but White House officials hinted at one major U.S. concession: Noriega might be permitted to remain in his country. "We have said we prefer him to leave Panama," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "but the policy issue is to leave power...
Among the unresolved details: when Noriega would resign and where he would go if he left Panama. With both sides eager to save face, one prospect was that Noriega would remain in the country a while longer, then emigrate for an extended period before returning home to settle...
Even so, Gorbachev's ambitious plan to infuse his economy with U.S. commercial vigor will face deep-rooted obstacles. Many Americans believe that helping strengthen the Soviet Union could damage U.S. interests. And because of Western security concerns, many U.S. commercial technologies will remain off limits to ventures with the Soviets. The Paris-based Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, for example, restricts exports of equipment and processes to the East bloc that might be used in military applications. Under COCOM rules, Western firms cannot do business with the Soviet Union in such areas as nuclear energy, high-speed computers...
...course, one can go too far with the Greeks-for-Dukakis bandwagon. Even Dukakis' half dozen or so second cousins who remain on Lesbos are too sophisticated to expect much from any American politician. Retired Schoolteacher Alexandros Chiotellis tools around in an old Honda with a DUKAKIS FOR PRESIDENT sticker in the rear window. Now employed in a lottery shop, Chiotellis gives a wry look when asked what the Duke will do for Greece. "Absolutely nothing," he says. "He will look after the interests of America first. We expect justice from him and nothing more...
...than their mothers. In the 1950s, 9% of women of childbearing age had no children; now 25% of college-educated working women between 35 and 45 are childless. If their younger sisters, now between 25 and 35, also decide not to give birth, the childless rate is likely to remain unusually high. Moreover, the younger women's ambivalence is reinforced by economic realities. "In the 1950s a single breadwinner could support a family of five," says Public Opinion Expert Daniel Yankelovich. "Now it takes two breadwinners to support a family of four...