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...pursues his own commercial dream of "a laundrette the size of the Ritz." With the assistance of his gay lover, Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis), an ersatz National Front hoodlum, Omar dreams up "Powders," a designer cleaning service replete with neon signs and high-style furnishings--even a fish tank...
...issue of U.S.-Soviet trade and the role played by American corporations in providing Moscow with the military technology used to subjugate the Soviet Union's neighbors and threaten American national security. The Ford Motor Company constructed an automobile plant at Gorkii which produces motors for the T-72 tank, the workhouse of the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Swindell-Dressler helped build the Kama River Truck plant which also produces vehicles used by the Red Army in Afghanistan. The Bryant Chucking Grinder Company of Vermont sold the Kremlin the ball bearings without which the construction of the SS-20 missile...
...says a State Department official. Moscow "provides only enough military aid to make United States military intervention costly and save the Soviet 'revolutionary' reputation, not enough to guarantee survival or risk confrontation," writes Robert Leiken, a Central American expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank...
...wealth of fact, interviews and occasional personal reflections, in A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America (Morrow; $17.95). The book is the product of three years of research by the author, an economist and director of the Economic Policy Council, a Manhattan-based think tank. Hewlett was increasingly struck by the income disparity between European and American women, a plight she illustrates with cold statistics. As of August 1985, Census Bureau figures show that women in the U.S. earn 64 cents for each dollar earned by males, up only 1 cents since 1939. European women...
...visit the zoo often, glimpsing at the large creatures in the clear tank as often as they can. With the wonder of children wrapped in the cynicism of unfulfilled dreams, they gaze at the turtles wishing that for once they can do something for their fellow man, or turtle, as the case...