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Questions swirl about his role in U.S. arms-for-hostages deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine contents page | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...controversy that continues to swirl around the chief of staff presents his boss with a dilemma. Sununu has been extremely useful to Bush as a lightning rod, absorbing political heat that might otherwise burn a popular President. Now Sununu is generating the heat and turning into a potential liability. Aides say that Bush, while annoyed at Sununu's excesses, continues to value his services. The President, they say, hopes that Gray's investigation will allow Sununu to "correct" his travel reimbursements and put the matter behind him. But that can only happen if Sununu stops stonewalling and explains, fully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly Free Or Die | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...taken, Gordon M. Fauth '93 has to be reminded to smile. It's a sunny, brisk day, and chattering students and the Out-of-Town News worker cut between Fauth and the Crimson photographer, ducking their heads, nodding in silent apology and moving on down the street. All around swirl the sounds of the Square, from the hawks of the Square Deal man to the laughter of the kids in the pit by the T-stop. Gordon's silence and stiff posture are strangely out of place in this acre of motion and life. He fixes his steady, unchanging expression...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: 35-Year-Old Sophomore Gordon Fauth Juggles Yet Another Experience: College Life | 4/13/1991 | See Source »

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers -- those legendary names are as synonymous with sophistication as a jet-black tuxedo, the snow-white swirl of an evening gown, a Ritz cracker . . . A Ritz cracker? According to Astaire's widow, a subsidiary of Nabisco Brands hoped to create just such a connection when it released a million packages of its familiar Ritz snack crackers decorated with dancers in formal dress. Though the faces seem airbrushed, Mrs. Astaire and the very much living Ginger Rogers see an uncanny resemblance to a photo of the famed Hollywood hoofers from the 1935 hit film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITIGATION: Nabisco Faces The Music | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...Amid the swirl of gunshots and shouting, Gorbachev did manage to conciliate one important rival: Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin, who agreed to increase his state's contribution to the central treasury from a tightfisted 23.4 billion rubles ($13 billion) to 80 billion rubles ($45 billion), though still short of its previous 60% share. In return, Yeltsin won concessions on budgetary accounting and greater control over the sprawling republic's enormous coal, natural gas and oil reserves. But Yeltsin withheld any endorsement of the troop deployments, arguing that "violence begets violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Iron Fist | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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