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Solidarity may not be the determined band of radicals that Moscow imagines, but it is easy to see why the Soviets are wary of it. Terms like "democracy" and "pluralism" crop up frequently in Solidarity conversations. At an outdoor rally late last month, one woman demanded full public disclosure of the Katyn Forest massacre, and another asked about rumors that a new mass grave had been found. Walesa tried to deflect these inflammatory questions, but his answer must have troubled the Kremlin even so: "We do have to have a settling of accounts. Right now we have to work...
...turned to banks for short-term loans that would not lock them into high rates for ten years or more. Industries that depend heavily on credit, particularly home building and auto sales, have been staggering. Lone Star Industries, the country's largest cement producer, last week took out full-page newspaper ads featuring a large skull and crossbones and the warning POISON...
...suspects that the mystery was just an excuse, an occasion for the writing team to get off a lot of good, if rather broad show-biz jokes. Taylor and Novak, who plays her co-star and longtime rival, have a bitchy catfight, full of gags about having two faces and two chins. Then there is Curtis as a relentlessly crass producer. "Get me the Coast!" he shouts into the phone at an uncomprehending English operator. Pause, and then an anguished yelp: "What do you mean, which coast?" But perhaps the high point of this nonsense comes when Taylor, who appears...
Until Reagan completes announcing his top appointments, the transition team-full of contending ideologues and power seekers-will remain the capital's center of leaks and plants. Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has been cautious about playing the appointees game, which he believes some of his colleagues have been "writing too hard" and proclaiming as certain. "People have been floating too many rumors; we don't know how accurate they are, and I don't think anyone else does." He has watched the Republican team float names just to see how much...
Those who work for newsmagazines sometimes wish that life were really as the novelists depict it-full of eccentrics who collect iguanas and medicine writers who come down with the exotic diseases they have just described...