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...estimated Tuesday that he and his friends may have as much as $10 billion invested in Western banks and real estate. When the final decision was being made by Marcos to either abdicate or fight the demonstrators outside the Presidential palace, Imelda Marcos reportedly asked her husband, "If we wipe them out, what will happen to our assets...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Money for Nothing, Trips for Free | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...study examined "nuclear decapitation," or the possibility that a surprise Soviet missile strike could wipe out the U.S. strategic-command system and prevent the President from ordering a retaliatory attack. Said one senior U.S. military officer: "This is the single most dangerous document I have ever seen." The Pentagon dispatched an official with a top security clearance to round up copies and destroy them in a high-security incinerator in the offices of the Joint Chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Dangerous Document | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...cutbacks in domestic spending are anything but minor. The President proposes to wipe out completely a wide range of federal programs. The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Small Business Administration and subsidies to Amtrak form just a small part of the hit list. Reagan would also sell to private investors a clutch of federal assets, including Government petroleum reserves and five federal electric-power facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future, Again | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...charged with operating a "ruling council" that controls a variety of illegal enterprises. The case, which Giuliani will try himself, uses the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to prosecute an entire organization, not just its leaders, and to confiscate its proceeds. "Our approach," he declares, "is to wipe out the five families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giuliani: The Passionate Prosecutor | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Have a few laughs, wipe your eyes and talk about the way women used to be in the good old days. When they wore skirts and shaved their legs, and smiled as they alerted you to your ring around the collar. When they brought you your slippers, your tie, your...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: A Step Backward | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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