Word: trips
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Want a real blast? The thrill of a ride in space seems so enticing to adventurous Americans that callers last week jammed the lines of a Houston company that offered a chance to win a trip to Soviet space station Mir. The winner of the sweepstakes would have to train for as long as six months in the Soviet Union but would also get $500,000. Or if he or she got cold feet and decided to pass up the rocket ride, the earthbound consolation prize would be $1.5 million...
Would-be cosmonauts have plenty of time to ponder the far-out trip: the % drawing is set for next December, and the flight may not occur until 1993. Texas officials, however, have begun an investigation to determine whether the conditions of the offer amounted to a lottery rather than a sweepstakes. If so, it would violate state law and presumably be canceled long before the countdown begins...
...Poland's problem, and Walesa, despite his affection for Poland's prewar dictator, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, strikes few people as a Volk-glorifying Fuhrer. But in trouncing candidate-come-lately Stanislaw Tyminski, a returned emigre who offered a form of national salvation as easy as a drug trip, Walesa himself could not quite shake off charges of pandering to emotions...
...cent pledged by allies, that amount is grossly insufficient, particularly from two such economic powerhouses as Germany and Japan. Moreover, few allies have pledged any money beyond Jan. 1 (to be fair, most have not yet been asked). So U.S. officials will soon have to rerun the September begging trip that was dubbed Operation Tin Cup. But Bonn is complaining about the high costs of German unification, and the Japanese Finance Ministry is grumbling about the nation's heavy debt. The U.S. Administration has some fancy arm twisting to do -- and if it fails, some even fancier explaining to Congress...
...Mafia as a cracked- mirror reflection of American industry. One hoped G3 might pit the Corleones against the bad boys of the drug trade: the old Italians vs. blacks and Hispanics, rustic chivalry vs. cutthroat capitalism. Instead, Coppola, who wrote the screenplay with Puzo, sends Michael on a side trip to Rome and Sicily...