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...resented, even hated by many Eurocrats, she will be missed for two reasons. First, as one senior Commission civil servant put it, "Margaret Thatcher was the good enemy," meaning that tirades brought the E.C. public attention and gave it importance. Her opposition to European integration put it on the front pages. Second, Thatcher served as an alibi for other member governments that did not dare openly question E.C. President Jacques Delors's pressure for a quick-step march toward a supranational European government...
...headline last week on the front page of Pravda, the Communist Party daily, posed the question haunting all Soviet consumers as they prepare for the coming winter: ARE WE THREATENED WITH HUNGER? President Mikhail Gorbachev has roundly dismissed what he calls "conjectures of a coming famine." In industrial centers like Leningrad, however, local authorities plan to introduce wide-scale rationing to avert the worst consumer shortages since the end of World...
...supply lower-level dealers with pagers and cellular telephones that were difficult for narcs to overhear, Michael Harris set up a front company, Telesis Electrical Co. He even became a patron of the arts. His money- laundering theatrical production company invested $385,000 in the Broadway production of Checkmates, which ran for five months...
...whether the language would be as timely or as forceful as Bush and Baker would like. Bush would go no further than to say that "there is a chance" the resolution will be adopted this week. If so, it would give a boost to his policy on the home front as well. The Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on gulf policy this week, to be followed shortly by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, next week, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congress has been demanding a voice in any decision to fight Iraq; 45 House Democrats went...
...past year, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has been itching for a rematch with El Salvador's U.S.-trained armed forces. Last year thousands of FMLN fighters nearly overran the capital, San Salvador, before the army's superior firepower inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels. Last week the FMLN launched a minioffensive in 10 of the country's 14 departments but scored no major victories...