Word: soft
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...James Taylor has lost his hair and gained a great American face. It is a face out of Steinbeck: long and spare, radiating intelligence and surprising strength for a man known for his soft lyrics. His friend Yo-Yo Ma says Taylor possesses an inner steel core that has helped him survive the traumas in his life. There have been plenty. Last year alone, his second marriage ended, and both his father Ike and his best friend and closest musical collaborator, Don Grolnick, died of cancer. Just three years earlier, he lost his brother Alex to alcoholism, a tragic reminder...
...least $122,000 in questionable contributions came from Young Brothers Development--USA, the Florida-based subsidiary of a Hong Kong real estate and aircraft brokerage. According to documents examined by TIME, the Florida company gave $75,000 in soft money to the Republican National Committee in late 1991 and an additional $47,000 sprinkled over the next three years. While foreign subsidiaries are allowed to contribute money generated in this country, the sole income earned by Young Brothers Development--USA is the rent from its only U.S. asset: a modest condominium in Washington's Georgetown section. Sources in the company...
...soft money given to the R.N.C. Former party chairman Haley Barbour, who engineered the loan guarantee, has insisted that the G.O.P.'s white knight is all-American. Last week, however, R.N.C. spokeswoman Mary Crawford backed off that assertion. While the party has "nothing in our records" to indicate that Young Brothers Development--USA is foreign-owned, she said, R.N.C. lawyers will investigate the issue, and money will be returned if it was generated overseas. She hastened to draw whatever party distinctions were left: "We have never had an orchestrated program to solicit funds from foreigners...
...Clinton Administration dispatched U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson last week to push Mobutu into a face-to-face meeting with Kabila to arrange a "soft landing," allowing the President to retire on grounds of ill health. Richardson carried a letter along those lines from Clinton. The special envoy was also trying to persuade Kabila that he should accept a cease-fire, commit himself to early elections and open the way for aid agencies to help feed and evacuate tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees who fled the fighting only to starve in the Zairean jungle. Both men disliked the terms...
...flying not south to Kinshasa but north to France. "Even if Mobutu does fly to France, he will almost certainly still be vowing to return to Zaire," says TIME's Peter Graff from Nairobi. Western diplomats are hoping he stays away. "With Mobutu absent, (US envoy) Bill Richardson's 'soft landing' will be much easier to negotiate," says Graff. "The remnants of the Mobutuist military would agree to lay down their arms and the rebels would enter the capital in peace." As fighting continues near Kenge, east of the capital, Graff says rebel leader Laurent Kabila himself is perhaps...