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...delivered bundles of cash, usually $100,000, to the First Lady when she visited New York in the early 1970s. (Although she owned a fashionable six-story town house, Marcos preferred to stay in a $1,700-a-night Waldorf-Astoria suite.) Her personal secretary, Carino asserted, withdrew as much as $14.5 million in cash. A total of $6,671,919 went for jewels purchased from such houses as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judge Wapner, Where Are You? | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...ROTC withdrew from Harvard in 1969, but theUniversity until recently allowed thge military touse some on-campus facilities. The May Councilresolution ended those privileges...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Bok to ROTC: Change, Please | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...outnumbered the Burmese but, taken by surprise, didn't have time to seek cover. Saw Klee Moo and the others just froze and shot at the enemy, raking everything in sight with automatic fire. He doesn't remember how long he stood there, firing madly, but eventually the Burmese withdrew, dragging their wounded with them. It was the first time Saw Klee Moo had encountered the enemy face to face. Asked if he was frightened, he shrugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Junior Rambos | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...mind Yeltsin, who was politicking vigorously for the post of the presidency of the Russian federation. Gorbachev lobbied personally on behalf of the federation's current Prime Minister, Alexander Vlasov, and accused Yeltsin of favoring a "collapse" of the Soviet Union. But at the end of the week, Vlasov withdrew his candidacy after a verbal drubbing from speakers at the Russian Congress of People's Deputies. The only serious remaining rival to Yeltsin was Ivan Polozkov, the conservative party boss from Krasnodar who has made no secret of his support for another Gorbachev rival, Yegor Ligachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summit: The Eye of the Storm | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...deal with Buthelezi has caused an embarrassing disagreement between Mandela and fellow A.N.C. officials. While in prison, Mandela infuriated some in the congress by writing a conciliatory letter to Buthelezi. Recently Mandela proposed meeting with Buthelezi as a way of cooling down the conflict, but then he abruptly withdrew the offer. Mandela admitted last week that some of his comrades "nearly throttled me" over the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Other Black Leader | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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