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...Motown version of Yalta. For the first time ever, the heads of the Big Three auto companies agreed to sit down together for a joint magazine interview. Robert J. Eaton of Chrysler, John F. Smith Jr. of General Motors and Alex Trotman of Ford held the historic parley last week when they met with TIME's editors at the Detroit Athletic Club. Seated at a circular table, the captains of the car industry engaged in a revved-up but civil discussion about everything from the gas tax and NAFTA to government regulation. The result is part of this week...
...down every change Clinton wanted, Begala and company returned to the Old Executive Office Building, where they propped Sperling up in a soft chair and covered him with all the jackets and scarves in sight. Throughout the night, the slumbering economist, who had begun to resemble Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta, would be consulted. "Hey, Gene," communications deputy David Dreyer would shout, "how much does a surcharge on millionaires pick up?" Sperling would mumble some number, and they would let him go back to sleep...
...even more unfathomable. Directed by Ivan Passer, STALIN vividly chronicles the revolutionary footsoldier's rise to power and his ruthless, increasingly paranoid reign of terror. The scenes of Stalin's 1930s' purges are especially chilling, and the film gratifyingly avoids hokey re-creations of "big" historical events like the Yalta Conference. Still, despite Duvall's intense performance, the century's least charismatic evildoer remains a stubbornly opaque figure...
Patches of snow still glimmer on the craggy mountains above, but on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula summer has arrived. In Yalta the terraced stone walls of the old town are draped in purple wisteria and wild yellow roses, and the first wave of tourists has come to stroll among the palmettos, ! cypresses and golden rain trees lining the town's crooked streets. Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt...
...strain ties between the two states -- including the overall future of the Crimea and Kiev's resistance to Russia's taking the lead on economic reforms. Specially printed Ukrainian coupons, designed as a temporary currency to phase out use of the Soviet ruble, circulate freely in the republic. In Yalta's shops, cashiers give change in a random mix of coupons and rubles that leaves the buyer guessing about the value of both...