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When is Hostess going to wise up and realize that it could turn a pretty profit if only they'd make the changes necessary to include in its market all us Jews who have never had a chocolate...
Suddenly, just as creditors were beginning to wise up, Maxwell disappeared from his 180-ft. yacht and was found floating near the Canary Islands. An autopsy ruled that he died of either a heart attack or drowning, or a combination of the two. But as investigators sifted through the mess he left behind, the suspicion grew that "Cap'n Bob" had deliberately abandoned ship. The most shocking discovery was that he had secretly and improperly "borrowed" $1 billion from worker pension funds to keep his companies afloat. While Maxwell's son Kevin struggles to manage what's left...
...Yeltsin may give way to a Russia-Firster like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who has fascistic tendencies, territorial ambitions and an ominously large popular following. The U.S. might then find itself dragged back into another open-ended international crisis that would make the meagerness of its current aid program seem penny-wise and pound-foolish. After all, the Marshall Plan and other programs to reconstruct Germany and Japan after World War II were arguably as important to avoiding World War III as was the containment of communism...
What next? Cedric McClester, author of Kwanzaa: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Didn't Know Where to Ask, has created Nia Umoja, "an African answer to Santa Claus." The character, who is supposed to represent an African griot, or wise man, wears a Nehru-style suit and joins hands with youngsters to ask what they have learned about Kwanzaa. Says McClester: "Kwanzaa needed a character because we need to attract younger people and their parents...
Although he is a burly man, he seemed to shrink a bit last week as he posed for pictures beside his charismatic commonwealth partners. While the more publicity-wise Yeltsin and Kravchuk stared straight ahead, Shushkevich, 57, bowed his head, his hands clasped humbly in front of him. Technically he and the other two are equals, but there seems little doubt that he will exercise the least influence...