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Frances Lear is on a roll. Her high-risk venture of creating a magazine for mature women is a splashy success. Just four years ago, with $30 million from her $112 million divorce settlement from television producer Norman Lear, she conceived Lear's, a bimonthly publication catering to "The Woman Who Wasn't Born Yesterday." This past March, with a photograph of Lear gracing the anniversary issue, Lear's went monthly, with a circulation of 350,000. The average age of her readers is 51, the average yearly household income a startling $95,600. New issues are fat with glossy...
...tumult plowed ahead and chose to remain a solo financial player to ensure her control of the enterprise. Kevin Buckley, the first editor during the bruising start-up, nonetheless credits Lear "as the first to see that most magazines neglected or talked down to millions of Americans. The success was inevitable and a pleasure to behold from a distance." The rapid growth of Lear's magazine has encouraged competitors. This month a new entry, Mirabella, aimed at 30-to-50-year-old women, may nibble at the younger readers in Lear's audience...
...Arafat the statement crowned another diplomatic success. His meeting with President Francois Mitterrand last week marked the first time that he has been officially received by a major West European leader. Mitterrand took the opportunity to urge Arafat to explain the P.L.O.'s stand on the charter, and seemed pleased with the results. Although Arafat refused to back formal abrogation of the charter, Premier Michel Rocard said Arafat's statement "constituted a positive clarification in the direction of peace...
Three months after Moscow's troop withdrawal, President Najibullah hangs tough in Kabul. -- Will Prince Sihanouk return home to Phnom Penh as the leader of Cambodia? -- Arafat "voids" the P.L.O. charter and scores a diplomatic success in Paris. -- Facing financial disaster, Argentina's voters consider putting a Peronist back in power...
Bush hopes that pressure from other Central American nations and the apparent success of Noriega's opposition will persuade him to abandon power, said an administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We're going to proceed slowly, we're going to take our time," the official said...