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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy toward the famous dissidents came a year ago. Following a 30-day hunger strike by Sakharov to force Moscow to allow his wife to seek medical treatment abroad, Bonner was permitted to go to the U.S. for a coronary-bypass operation. At the beginning of her six-month visit to the West, Bonner adhered to a pledge she had been obliged to sign in order to obtain her visa: she would hold no press conferences and give no interviews while abroad. Later, however, she was outraged at seeing secretly recorded videotapes of herself and her husband that portrayed them...
Kimche phoned McFarlane again on July 30 to set up another visit to Washington. He arrived Aug. 2 with some disquieting news: his Iranian contacts had lost confidence in their ability to sway the Lebanese extremists; getting the American hostages released would not be so easy. At the same time, the Iranians were worried about their own vulnerability; they needed arms to cement their position. McFarlane was uneasy about the idea of shipping U.S. arms to people the American government had no contact with except through Kimche. Well, Kimche replied, suppose Israel shipped the arms and asked...
...surprises. Last week an appeals court in Managua upheld the 30-year sentence of downed U.S. Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus, thus paving the way for a pardon by Christmas, as President Ortega once hinted might be possible. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd was expected to ask for Hasenfus' release during a visit to Managua this week. If the Wisconsin gunrunner returns home, various congressional committees are certain to want to question him extensively about the private U.S. supply network...
...gains -- and publicity -- through boycotts of consumer products whose makers discriminate against minorities. Now Jackson has taken his campaign to Japan, whose auto and electronics corporations not only export to the U.S. but are a growing presence in American manufacturing. At rallies and press conferences during his five-day visit, Jackson attacked Japanese firms for ignoring minorities. He asserted that blacks in the U.S. own some 2 million Japanese cars but have fewer than five dealerships nationwide. If Japan's businesses do not enter into a "mutually respectful and beneficial relationship" with blacks, Hispanics and women, he told...
Just ask Carisa Heltne, the 10-year-old girl who wrote me after my visit to tell what a great place Duluth was and how she would invite me over to dinner to tell me about it, except that she thought my table manners weren't up to her parents' standards...