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...speech to NATO foreign ministers in Copenhagen last week, Secretary of State James Baker listed several of the conditions for assistance that Gorbachev had tried to head off. The U.S.S.R. is potentially a prosperous country, said Baker, but "to tap this potential, the Soviets must move to embrace a real market economy." And to provide stable political underpinning for it, Moscow should fully accept the rule of law, stop repressing the independence-minded Baltic states, cut its military spending and curtail or end its aid to "regimes that pursue internal repression," presumably including Cuba...
...against considerable odds, the two FBI special agents who authored this slam-bang policier placed a bug in the Staten Island mansion of Paul ("the Pope") Castellano, New York City's boss of crime bosses. The tap eventually led to the indictment of Castellano, along with more than 100 of his underlings, in the so-called Commission case. Joseph O'Brien and Andris Kurins did the honors, but more like courtiers than arresting officers. They took Castellano to the federal court complex in Manhattan by a back way to avoid the flashbulbs. When the aging diabetic felt a little peckish...
...starters, the Faculty will tap its own reserves, money left over from previous years, and will have to use non-restricted gifts that might otherwise have gone to other areas...
...tell people you love them," says Rubin. Director Blake Edwards, whose current film, Switch, tells the story of a male chauvinist pig who dies and returns to earth as a woman, believes spirit-filled movies are popular because "the kids are searching for something. Filmmakers are merely attempting to tap it." Producer Robert Lawrence recently paid $2 million for a proposed script called Manhattan Ghost Story. Says he: "In these films you can moralize without sermonizing...
...music in a sweat-filled room is a familiar scene on a weekend at Harvard. The Office for the Arts' guide to Harvard and Radcliffe lists seven dance companies on campus. The Radcliffe dance program offers over 10 classes in modern dance, modern jazz, ballet, choreography and tap. The Harvard Summer Dance Program, for which students from schools other than Harvard can receive credit, offers more than 17 courses in dance, choreography, dance history and dance writing. Yet not one course with the word "dance" in its title is given for credit at Harvard...