Word: case
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Through this emissary Lukanov made a disarmingly straightforward case: an article identifying him as up and coming, not to mention reform minded, would be a kiss of death. Jealous, older, more orthodox comrades would accuse him of "trying to start a mini-cult of personality in the bourgeois capitalist press." Lukanov reminded me that he had granted the interview "in good faith," believing I was writing about Bulgaria, not about him personally...
...billion of the firm's capital. Forced to the wall, Drexel agreed to pay the $650 million and give up Milken, who was indicted last March. He was originally scheduled to come to trial next month, but the Government is considering broad new charges that could delay the case...
...neighbors for decades without fully persuading them that the "same old Germans" are no more than ghosts of a rejected past. More than half of West Germans have been born since the end of World War II, and the theory of unchanging national character is demonstrably unscientific. In any case, the Federal Republic has operated a healthy and vigorous democracy for more than 30 years. As former Chancellor Willy Brandt has said, while it is true that there are nationalistic, right- wing groups in Germany, such movements also exist in East European countries, and the Soviet Union is home...
...central question is whether one person can be singled out for blame in the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The state believes so, basing its case on the tenet that a ship's captain is ultimately responsible for his vessel. Hazelwood's history of alcohol abuse has not helped his credibility. Nor has the fact that he left the bridge in the critical minutes before the accident. Hazelwood's defense is nonetheless trying, as it wades through a witness list loaded with 112 names, to persuade the jury that the captain was a scapegoat. Says Michael Chalos, a defense...
Magubane's touching photograph of Mandela hugging a grandchild appears in this week's issue. But as far as Mandela is concerned, the most important picture Magubane took last week is a small black-and-white head shot. Informed that Mandela wanted to apply for a passport in case he was called to African National Congress headquarters in Zambia, Magubane obliged by shooting a roll of black-and-white film and having it developed overnight. The next day Mandela's lawyer showed up to take Magubane's photographs to the passport office in Johannesburg...