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What you do see, however, is the "iron triangle," the term applied to the relationship among the people in a given Government department, a special interest group outside the Government and the members and/or staff of a congressional committee or subcommittee, all working on the same problem. Triangle describes the positioning of the participants, iron their mobility. Such arrangements are further immobilized by the sheer number of subcommittees dealing with any one issue. With the power of the leadership in both the House and the Senate reduced to almost nothing these days, bills go to several committees simultaneously, which then...
...cortege of mourners had just filed along the dusty village street and assembled inside a modest frame house for the funeral of a local official of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) party. Suddenly an armed band of renegades attacked the group. A hand grenade was lobbed inside the house, and the walls were raked with a hail of automatic fire from Soviet-made AK-47s. Four of the mourners were killed; 16 were wounded...
...firsthand how far some of these changes have gone and to hear of what might be in the offing, Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald led a number of Time Inc. editors on an eleven-day tour through four separate regions of China. The group included Editorial Director Ralph...
Excluded from official circles, Wang belongs instead to an unofficial group called the "Stars," which grew out of last year's Democracy Wall movement. This group of 26 artists was allowed last summer to show 160 works in Peking's main art museum -an important gesture toward openness in China. Wang's large, totemic figure of Mao, with one eye open and one eye shut, was the most controversial piece in the show, which drew between 4,000 and 7,000 visitors a day during its two-week run. Says Wang: "Today's leaders have made...
...synthetic. They were a good singles band that was tuned up and turned into a commercial phenomenon. Producer Ted Templeman did the tuning. When he produced the first Doobies album in 1971, the band was led by Founder Tom Johnston, a hang-tough rocker who wrote many of the group's first hits. Templeman gave the early records an uncluttered, unaffected sound. But as the group started to change, its producer changed with it, and if he did not initiate these changes and new directions, he certainly encouraged them. The Doobies, who over the years have probably had more...