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...struggling nations of Western Europe during the second half of 1983. That was the cautious view of TIME'S European Board of Economists, which met in Geneva last week to survey the West's hesitant forces for recovery-most notably the falling interest rates around the world-and to weigh them against the twin recessionary demons of global debt and rising protectionism that are threatening the economies of nations everywhere...
...walk out of his life and fight to get back in, to be his and still be herself. Beatty, the master charmer, uses a torrent of words and his sweet-faced stare to persuade us that have Jack and his brand of robust idealism have meaning for a world-and a movie world-mired in cynicism and reaction. Beatty's soaring spirit infected the Reds crew, from Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro to Production Designer Richard Sylbert to Editors Dede Allen and Craig McKay. This is a young man's movie, vi tal, confident, itching to meet the challenges...
...election boycott was a public rebuke for Marcos, who had specifically scheduled the elections to give his 16-year rule a patina of legitimacy. He particularly wanted to show the world-and the U.S.-that he had at least partially restored democracy before he goes to the North-South economic summit in Mexico City this October. Marcos charged that the boycotters were collaborating with Muslim separatists and other outlawed groups, planning a wave of violence...
White House aides insisted that Haig had only meant, quite properly, to reassure the world-and warn the Soviets -that the U.S. Government was continuing to operate. Said one White House staffer: "Al Haig is too strong a player to let go." Reagan himself summoned Haig to his hospital bed and gave the Secretary letters to hand carry to the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Nonetheless, Haig left on his Middle East trip an uncertain figure, worried about having unnamed enemies in the White House who were out to get him. Whether he can recover authority over...
...report was widely praised round the world-and also subjected to some telling criticism. The most blistering attack has been launched by Julian Simon, a professor of economics and business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the winter issue of the Public Interest, a neoconservative quarterly, Simon charges that the presidential panel and staff who wrote the report consisted almost entirely of well known Cassandras of the environmental movement. In making their predictions Simon argues, these prophets of doom relied on shoddy research and dubious analytical tools...