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...government, a languishing economy, all-pervasive corruption and $200 million in bills from the summit conference. As TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack E. White discovered during a visit to Sierra Leone, the country's plight is disturbingly similar to that of neighboring Liberia, where Stevens' friend and predecessor as O.A.U. chairman, President William Tolbert, was killed in April during a coup staged by noncommissioned officers. White's report...
...Rockers' predecessor, The Harder They Come, has a tiny mythic quality. It beats one song into a sandy grave but maintains a quick, urchin-like pace that never gets lost in the narrow, winding streets of Kingston. Rockers, simpler and less violent, doesn't show as much of the city, sticking primarily to the Rasta neighborhoods where life is slower...
...story line continues the basic good-guys vs. bad-guys theme of the original film. Darth Vader wants Luke, and he uses Leia, Han, Chewbaca and C-3PO as bait to lure the young hero into his chillingly evil clutches. Like its predecessor, Empire provides some genuinely comic moments and some downright dimwitted dialogue. But unlike the original, the new film contains some truly shocking plot twists...
...Reagan now repudiates the treaty signed by his predecessor, he may kill the whole SALT process, and the Soviets may embark on a massive increase in warheads, well beyond the modest but significant limits set by SALT II. That is a gamble Reagan seems willing to take. "The Russians are resilient and hard-nosed businessmen," says the candidate's chief foreign policy adviser, Richard Allen. "They're marking time and waiting to see whom they'll be dealing with after the election...
...vision needed by the head of CBS, which is not just a corporation in the chairman's view, but a company with a mission to educate. Many others believed the objections to Backe had a more personal foundation. Paley, who also got rid of Backe's predecessor, cannot tolerate the idea of anybody taking his place -ever...