Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somehow reduced to first names: Maggie, Cory, Nancy. Yet, despite her visibility, Raisa Gorbachev remains a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in sable. Is she the witty, cosmopolitan muse of glasnost, as some Westerners who have met her suggest? Or is she a hard-line ideologue, as others report? At a dinner with ^ the Reagans during the 1985 Geneva summit, Raisa launched into a lengthy and pedantic monologue on Soviet policy. After the Gorbachevs left, Nancy Reagan may have spoken for the other guests when she fumed, within hearing of then White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, "Who does...
...team of designers led by Tamara Mokeyeva of the "experimental" atelier at the Dom Modeli in Moscow. Soviet clothing factories depend on the shop's designs to keep track of what's hot and what's not. But the cuts and colors remain conservative. According to one report, Mokeyeva has only praise for her First Lady: "She has natural charm. This is not something you can learn...
What follows is predictable but daffy and delightful nonetheless. Who knows more about the kind of toys a twelve-year-old would like than a twelve-year- old? None of the grownups at the toy company, anyway. "What's a marketing report?" asks Josh, who has never heard of such a thing, and the company president (Robert Loggia) is so impressed with his ability to look at the product rather than the charts that he appoints him vice president in charge of development, assigning him to do nothing but sit in an office and play. Like the Peter Sellers character...
While U.S. news broadcasts are reaching a growing audience abroad, foreign reports are also starting to flicker across American TV screens. Every week CNN World Report features 2 1/2 hours of uncensored stories from broadcasters throughout the world. Any news agency is free to contribute, although CNN reserves the right to cut segments longer than three minutes. Since World Report went on the air last fall, 86 news organizations in 80 countries, ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, have participated. A segment from Uruguay's SAETA TV, for example, reported on Pope John Paul II's recent tour of four South...
...tobacco industry, as expected, blasted the Surgeon General's report. "The claims that smokers are 'addicts' defy common sense and contradict the fact that people quit smoking every day," said Brennan Moran, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute. "The Surgeon General has mistaken the enemy," declared Democratic Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. "In comparing tobacco -- a legitimate and legal substance -- to insidious narcotics such as heroin and cocaine, he has directed 'friendly fire' at American farmers and businessmen...