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Waiting along with Peres to welcome Shcharansky at Ben Gurion Airport were a number of Cabinet ministers and politicians, together with the country's two Chief Rabbis. As the plane came to a halt and the door opened, a tall man carrying a shopping bag stepped inside. It was Mikhail Stiglitz, Avital's brother, who is an Israeli army officer. The pilot had radioed ahead that Shcharansky, who was released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into...
TIME's board expects that the trade deficit will at least halt its runaway growth and possibly retreat a bit by the end of 1986. The deficit hit a record $148.5 billion during 1985, largely because an overly strong dollar made foreign goods cheap in the U.S. and American exports too expensive in other countries. But last September finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace...
Meanwhile, a House panel voted unanimously yesterday to halt direct U.S. aid to the government of President Marcos of the Philipines and to channel future humanitarian assistance and economic aid through the Roman Catholic church and other private groups...
Miller left the executive branch for Congress where he served as special assistant to former Sen. John Cooper, working on efforts to halt the production of anti-ballistic missiles, the SALT I negotiations, and other foreign policy questions...
...junta began on campuses and spread through the city. Our friends described to us the moving spectacle of the people marching down the Alameda, open palms raised to show "Our hands are clean," as black helicopters--no doubt American-made--circled just feet overhead. But the government did not halt the protests...