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...more than two years, Mexicans have endured the imposition of one austerity package after another. They have watched government food subsidies shrink, unemployment rise, the value of the peso sink (it slid to an all-time low last week of 372 to the U.S. dollar). Yet now, on top of such belt tightening, Mexico City and four coastal states need major reconstruction programs that will consume already tight reserves of capital. "It is a tremendous psychological blow," says M. Delal Baer, an expert on Mexico at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "You begin to feel that...
...whirlwind of talk shows, photo sessions and interviews that come with her crown. "For me, Miss America is the ultimate," says Akin, who has participated in at least 100 professional beauty pageants since the age of five. She has picked up a few expert techniques along the way. She shrink- wrapped herself in Saran Wrap for three or four nights before one competition last year ("You lose a little bit of water"), and has used an athletic adhesive called Firm Grip to keep the bottom of her bathing suit in place ("Everybody uses it. I'm so firm...
...stick, Gorbachev also held out a carrot. At a dinner for Craxi, Gorbachev called for a revival of "the spirit, the atmosphere and the essence of detente" and promised that "the (arms reduction) proposals made by us some time ago are still standing." He renewed an offer to shrink the number of Europe-based Soviet missiles to 162, equal to that of British and French nuclear missiles; he also revived a 1983 proposal to freeze Soviet intermediate-range-missile deployment in Asia if nuclear cuts could be achieved in Europe. The U.S. has previously rejected both proposals. Gorbachev also hinted...
Since Fletch writes his column under yet another pseudonym and repeatedly states his loathing for his first name, a shrink might assume that he has something of an identity problem. And since he likes to visualize himself sporting an Afro haircut and helping Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lead the Lakers to N.B.A. glory, the evidence seems to support that theory. But a couch, unless it is shared by a blond as attractive as Dana Wheeler-Nicholson -- playing a distressed damsel he rescues -- is the last place any sensible person would want to find him languishing. Much better for himself...
...estimated it would reduce outlays by $56 billion below the totals foreseen earlier for fiscal 1986, which starts Oct. 1, and by $295 billion over three years. Both figures are a bit higher than Reagan had requested in his February budget. If all projections prove out, the deficit would shrink from an anticipated $213 billion in the current fiscal year to less than $100 billion by fiscal...