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...their position on this subject as well, in effect responding affirmatively to a plan advanced by Bush in an address to the U.N. General Assembly last September. It envisions an eventual treaty signed by all producer nations banning the development, manufacture or use of such weapons and promising to destroy existing stocks. In the meantime, the U.S. and the Soviet Union plan to negotiate a treaty between themselves calling for the destruction of most of their chemical weapons. This agreement could also be ready in time for summit signing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rush to Sign New Accords | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...dump Milken, who now faces a 98-count fraud and racketeering indictment. "The era of extravagance and insanity has come to an end," says economist Pierre Rinfret, who runs a Wall Street consulting firm. "This is a breath of fresh air. Drexel got what it deserved. These guys could destroy the country. There is no rhyme or reason for what has been going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predator's Fall: Drexel Burnham Lambert | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...books on the Soviet Gulag, Rostropovich took him into his house. He also wrote a letter attacking the censors who banned Solzhenitsyn's work. "For 48 hours after I wrote that letter," Rostropovich recalls, "Galina did not sleep but cried. She told me, 'You have the right to destroy yourself, but what right do you have to destroy my life and the lives of your daughters?' But after 48 hours, Galina tells me, 'Without this letter, you will not be able to continue living.' We agreed to send it. I said, 'They can't break us.' But she was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tears And Triumph in Moscow | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...market rates of 7 or even 10 to 1 would be like mainlining heroin. Before any monetary unification, the excess purchasing power represented by those East marks has to be mopped up and a better balance of supply and demand established. One way would be for East Germany to destroy savings by a radical currency reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Of Business On Your Marks . . . | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...superpowers should also re-examine their strategic nuclear forces, with the goal of achieving a far more stable balance. They should ban land-based multiple-warhead (MIRV) missiles, which are tempting targets for a first strike because an attacker can destroy the three to 14 warheads on such launchers by expending only one or two warheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Is Too Much? | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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