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...four new pullouts immediately raised the question of whether such departures will force South Africa into a future of bleak economic isolation or simply transfer assets to local ownership with no substantial effects on apartheid. Only one thing is certain: more and more American companies are bound to follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Pullout Parade | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Lachman (Union City, Desperately Seeking Susan) has shot the film with the shadowless clarity of postcards and Polaroids. The Narrator's convertible streaks down the highway like a big red Road Runner, and the Laziest Woman in the World (Swoosie Kurtz) vegetates in a tidy mansion surrounded by the bleak glamour of the Texas plains -- civilization's affront to parched nature. Byrne's framing of the actors, like his sense of humor, is just off center and right on target. It gives all the performers (especially Goodman, who becomes tomorrow's star with his endearing turn as Louis) plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Comedy for the '80s | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...Soviets do not appreciate how seriously the U.S. takes human rights, and think they need to hear the American position directly from Reagan. With the partial exception of INF, a mere listing of the positions of the two sides on the agenda's main items could lead to bleak predictions for success. But the great imponderable is the extent to which the two leaders, talking face to face, can find the compromises that have so far eluded their bargainers. The conference arrangements are being drawn to maximize the chance that they can. Though Reagan and Gorbachev are not giving themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland Cometh | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...SOVIET-AMERICAN relations are once again back on track. "A bleak logjam suddenly broken, Soviet-American relations now flow with promise," The New York Times editorialized. Salvation is now at hand, if only we believe...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: An Unsavory Swap | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...West were happy that the outlook was bleak for a superpower summit after the Soviets detained and imprisoned American journalist Nicholas S. Daniloff '56. That much is obvious. What isn't so clear--but probably no less true--is that that's what the Soviets were hoping for from the start...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: An Unsavory Swap | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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