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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Questions to Hefner ranged from her personalinvolvement with Playboy to the ethics ofpublishing semi-nude pictures of Vanna White, theletter-flipper on the popular television game showWheel of Fortune. Hefner defended the decision toprint the pictures, even though White objected andhas filed a suit against Playboy

Author: By Gordon M. Burnes, | Title: Hefner Criticizes Meese Commission | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

Government has a lot more to do with how people feel about their world than how "experts" vainly try to make it. I once found myself standing in a park in Bolivar, Tennesse listening to Senator Jim Sasser give a speech. An old farm lady who saw my grey suit came up to me with tears in her eyes. She wanted to thank me for what the Senator and his staff had done. They had gotten her son discharged from the Marines when the Marines were about to put him in jail for two years...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Harvard Buildings: | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

Other leaders decried China's woes. Charging that bribery, tax evasion, embezzlement and other crimes "have reached very serious proportions," Finance Minister Wang Bingqian demanded that the "malpractices" come to a halt. Dressed in a gray Mao suit, Wang chided officials for using public funds for "lavish dinner parties and gifts" and for "blindly pursuing the modernization of office facilities." Thanks in part to such extravagances, Wang said, the government ran a $1.9 billion budget deficit in 1986 and can expect $2.2 billion in red ink this year. Planning Commission Minister Song Ping took up the theme: "Financial and economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Settling for A Stalemate | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...this, the feisty Sofaer stands high with Secretary Shultz, who hired him after admiring his performance as federal district court judge in the libel suit by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME magazine.* The son of Sephardic Jews, Sofaer, 48, was born in Bombay, and served for a decade as a distinguished professor at Columbia Law School. From the start he was controversial at the State Department. Although the "Judge" was acknowledged to have a brilliant legal mind, his abrasiveness irritated many of his staff outside the immediate circle of newcomers he brought with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Shultz's Feisty Lawyer Abraham Sofaer draws fire as State Department legal adviser | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...National Congress. She has neither ambition nor money, no currency at all except her formidable good looks. The expatriate conspirators, white and black, who gather each afternoon to plot and gossip on Tamarisk Beach are distracted by the dark-eyed, full- breasted young woman in the skimpy yellow bathing suit. She is wooed by men who want not only to possess but to politicize her as well. After hearing Hillela admit that she does not understand anything that she has not directly experienced, a high-ranking ANC official says, "Someone needs to take you in hand, my girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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