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...fighting terrorism, the summit closed on the same raucous note that marred its opening: Japanese radicals seeking to sabotage the proceedings descended on subway and train stations with smoke bombs packed with firecrackers, crippling rush-hour traffic, but claiming no casualties, in a city turning weary under a welter of unprecedented security restrictions...
...liberally indeed. One shot shows Party Secretary Arnoud Cevaal, 37, sitting on one of the classic green benches inside the stately parliamentary assembly hall in the Hague. But Cevaal's mind is clearly not on affairs of state, since his hand is busy exploring the bared behind of Lorette Welter, 30, personal assistant to a Liberal member of parliament. In the pages that follow, Cevaal and Welter are shown showering, bubble-bathing and sleeping together in the altogether. When an affronted parliamentary chairman demanded an explanation, the gladhanding lovers turned suddenly cool. Welter said that she merely wished "to give...
...welter of offerings can leave many consumers befuddled. IRA ads often bristle with hype or technical jargon. Says Donald Underwood, vice president of retirement planning at Merrill Lynch, which holds 1.4 million IRAs: "Consumers are overwhelmed by the variety because there's a lot of smoke out there. They have to do their homework...
...Living at Risk comes at a politic time in the continuing debate over American involvement in Central America. It is an important film because it sheds new light on the sorely stretched "facts" that each week issue from the editorial pages of our leading newspapers. It undoes the welter of complacent opinion, spearheaded by conservative journalists like Shirley Christian and George F. Will, that finds fault with every aspect of the Sandinista regime and urges further U.S. funding of contra activities in the region. And because of several clever decisions by the filmmakers, Living at Risk should have a significant...
...also casts a new light on urban gentrification by baby boomers and yuppies. Long favored in discos and nightclubs, neon is now the fashionable accompaniment to monkfish and Moussy. A welter of tubes puts the zing in San Diego's Fat City restaurant, highlighting 1950s artifacts for the young crowd. At Ichabod's, a trendy West Side Manhattan eatery that opened in March, the visual draw is an imposing Ionic column swathed in blue neon. "Neon is big with the more hip," says Chicago Interior Designer Laura L. Pedian, who did the Wells Street Journal, a local restaurant, in restful...