Word: publication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform the Soviet Union and the fulfillment of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's plan to create a German "federation," the President would almost certainly pick perestroika, since that is what is driving the new Soviet foreign policy. On this issue, Malta was an exercise in private commiseration and public obfuscation. With Bush at his side at their joint press conference, Gorbachev said that "history" should be allowed to determine the status of the two Germanys, and he warned against any "artificial acceleration" of the "process of change." It was a telling caution coming from the Great Accelerator himself. Bush...
...letters. Constituents who suffer from allergies, asthma and migraine headaches claim the scented ads aggravate their symptoms. In a New York hearing last week, perfumers defended the ads. Said Michael Petrina, an industry spokesman: "We know of no scientific data linking such samples to any significant threat to the public health...
Increasingly, Colombian public opinion favors negotiating with the narcos. It is a notion that Barco's associates know better than to utter around the office. When police foiled a plot to kill Barco's daughter, the flinty President said, "With common criminals and gutless assassins, dialogue is not possible...
...free havens. In Luxembourg total bank deposits have grown from $40 billion in 1984 to more than $100 billion last year. In the wake of a drug-money scandal involving the Florida operations of Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the country has tried to burnish its public image by declaring money laundering a criminal offense, even while it has fortified its bank-secrecy rules...
Still, Hong Kong remains the pre-eminent laundering center in the Pacific. Almost everyone there does it, usually legitimately, at least according to the laws of Hong Kong, where even insider trading is no crime. By the puritan standards of the U.S., says one American banker, "the lack of public disclosure here is scandalous." The city is a mecca for arms dealers, drug traffickers and business pirates of every description. "Where else could I broker a deal that involves machine guns from China, gold from Taiwan and shipments traded in Panama City?" says a Brazilian arms merchant who maintains...