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...seven-year veteran of the Reagan Administration, Treasury Secretary James Baker is no stranger to crisis. Rarely, however, has he been placed so squarely in the vortex. On Friday, Baker met over breakfast in the Treasury Secretary's ornate dining room with TIME's international economics correspondent, Christopher Redman. For 90 minutes they discussed the week's tumultuous events. Excerpts from the interview...
Harvard Chief of Police Paul Johnson said his force arrested Nathaniel Oliver, of 40 Mill Street in Boston, for the burglary. He said officers had answered a call from Oscar DelaRosa '90 of I-Entry, who said a stranger had entered his common room. Johnson said police stopped Oliver as he left A-Entry because he fit the description given by DelaRosa...
...kids will be watching. He may also find that his fondness for vignettes ("Remember when Aunt Bea got squiffed and vamped the delivery boy?") undercuts the dramatic imperative to hold the anonymous viewer's attention. Private lives don't always play in public. Grandpa's % ripping yarn is a stranger's restless yawn...
...wife's mansion Romano is the buffoon philanderer, tiptoeing toward domestic calamity. At the spa he is the exuberant courtier, wading into a mud bath to retrieve a woman's hat. On business in Russia he is the dapper salesman, mainly of himself. And years later, reminiscing with a stranger, he is the old seducer whose spirit nearly broke when his heart did. Dark Eyes won Mastroianni the Best Actor prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and, by rights, should earn him an Oscar nomination next February...
Contra leader Adolfo Calero is no stranger to the violent violation of free speech. In fact, he stands accused in an assassination attempt on Eden Pastora. On May 30, 1984 a bomb exploded at a public press conference in La Penca, Nicaragua called by dissident contra leader Eden Pastora (a.k.a. Commandante Zero). Eight people were killed including three international journalists. Many other reporters were mutilated...