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...Sunday morning, Nov. 10, Aquino went to the Manila Memorial Park cemetery to attend a Mass for dead family members, as she had done on the tenth day of every month since her mother died. In the course of lunch afterward with the celebrant, Monsignor Orlando Panlican, she repeated the critical, unanswered question: Could the opposition, if it put up a common candidate, beat Marcos...
None of the above. Officials at the Marshall Space Center recently announced that the maximum "fee reduction" which Morton-Thiokol would receive is $10 million. That's one-tenth of Ivan Boesky's fine. It's not nearly severe enough to be called a slap on the wrist...
...Part of what these guys do," she says, "is turning down their volume and melding with what we've got -- and lemme tell ya', honey, we ain't got one- tenth what they do. I've gone to see Carole and Mark (the lead tenor) in recital. When they open up, your heart comes into your mouth and tears come into your eyes and you think, My God, I know this person...
There have been other clues that the government thinks the time is ripe for accommodation. At Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress last summer, Jaruzelski unveiled a plan for a national "consultative council" to advise the government on economic and social policy. The body is to include leaders of the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church and politically moderate intellectuals. Two weeks ago, Premier Zbigniew Messner took the unprecedented step of withdrawing a piece of economic legislation from parliament for revisions after it had been publicly criticized as a blatant attempt by bureaucrats to undermine proposed economic reforms that Jaruzelski...
...Tenth Gift Idea: The Secret Weapon...