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...domestic economic agenda. Other major grain producers, from Canada to Australia, have already eased the Soviets' access to credit; failure to follow suit, U.S. farmers argued, could shut them out of the huge Soviet market. But farm- belt lawmakers complained that the credit guarantees did not go far enough: Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas had hoped for at least $3 billion. Trade experts note that because of Moscow's shortage of hard currency reserves, the U.S.S.R. needed the credits simply to match its normal level of U.S. imports...
...most generous rescue efforts are those from Germany. Chancellor Helmut Kohl is eager both to reward Gorbachev's support for unification and to promote stability as a way of keeping hordes of hungry Russians from heading west. The Germans have promised nearly $10 billion in aid, as well as enough meat, milk and medicine for 10 million people for a month. With a sense of irony and shame, war veterans in Leningrad find themselves awaiting CARE packages from Germany nearly 50 years after the city's population was virtually starved in the siege. Many believe Leningrad is suffering severe shortages...
Christmas films come in two basic shapes: books and toys. The toys -- doll babies like Home Alone and cuddly creatures like Edward Scissorhands -- may mop up at the box office. But prestige is a Hollywood product too; it can be cashed in for Oscars if enough critics and Motion Picture Academy voters are impressed by what they see. So lauded literary properties like Hamlet and The Sheltering Sky become ambitious films. Herewith, three bookish films hoping for a shelf life that extends past New Year...
...need tough guys. I need more lawyers." But in his negotiations with a crafty padrone (Eli Wallach), with a gaudy capo (Joe Mantegna), even with some slippery Vatican officials over a European real estate deal, Michael decides he needs tough guys. The question is: Can he still be tough enough to lead them...
...entertainment as a multiplier is probably as great as, or greater than, any other industry's," observes Charles Waite, chief of the U.S. Census Bureau of Economic Programs. "Unfortunately, there's no exact way to measure its effect." But if the American entertainment industry's boundaries were drawn broadly enough to include all or most of its related businesses, some economists believe, it could be credited with generating more than $500 billion a year in sales...