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Embarrassed U.S. officials conceded that the attempted shipping violated the arrangements. They denied that information on Soviet warheads could be gleaned from the contraband. It was all an innocent misunderstanding by souvenir collectors, the U.S. said...
Just before leaving Moscow last week, President Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev on behalf of an aide for a souvenir of the historic meeting: his autograph. Reagan then produced the Jan. 4, 1988, issue of TIME that named Gorbachev Man of the Year and had him sign the cover. We were happy to be of service...
Likewise, Soviet officialdom is warming toward American values. Michael Jackson's Pepsi ads are on the air, McDonald's is opening 20 restaurants in Moscow featuring "Bolshoi Maks," and the TASS news agency has entered into a joint venture with an American firm to produce souvenir summit T shirts with the TASS TOP 20 music logo on the back...
...currency-hungry China, the pandas are more popular ambassadors than Ping-Pong players. China rents out the animals for as much as $500,000 apiece for six months, while zoos rake in huge profits from increased attendance and souvenir sales. Says A.A.Z.P.A. Executive Director Robert Wagner: "If we don't watch what we're doing, we could love the giant panda into extinction in the next five years." Although Toledo will probably get its pandas, future short-term loans are in doubt...
Though the poor are most affected by the uprising, middle-class Palestinians also must adjust to the new reality. Edward Lama feels trapped between threats from the uprising's leaders to close his souvenir shop on Bethlehem's main street and orders from the army to stay open. Most days his door is open, but he spends the hours sipping coffee in his deserted shop, while his two dozen employees slump behind counters of glittering gold, olive-wood crucifixes and brass trinkets. Business is down more than 50% since the intifadeh began, and Lama's income does not cover...