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- Apr. 16, 1990: The Morning Line
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 16, 1990 Colossal Colliders:Smash!
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- The Morning Line
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p>The odds on leaders likely to fall next:
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- <p>-- Corazon Aquino, the Philippines
- </p>
- <p> Even money. Do seven failed tries deserve another? No. But
- with the economy in shambles, the coups keep coming.
- </p>
- <p>-- Hun Sen, Cambodia
- </p>
- <p> 3 to 1. With the Chinese, Vietnamese and Thais all
- squabbling over Cambodia, the country is rapidly going to Pol
- Pot.
- </p>
- <p>-- Fidel Castro, Cuba
- </p>
- <p> 7 to 2. Whipping up resentment about the U.S.'s TV Marti
- broadcasts won't feed his people if Moscow's $10 million-a-day
- subsidy wanes.
- </p>
- <p>-- Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire
- </p>
- <p> 7 to 2. Finally balking at reports of his $3 billion fortune
- and palatial residences in several countries, the World Bank
- wants to cut aid, and so does Congress.
- </p>
- <p>-- Margaret Thatcher, Britain
- </p>
- <p> 4 to 1. Wimpy Tories afraid to tell her that the poll tax
- has been too taxing on her polls have a dream scheme: get
- husband Denis to ask her to retire.
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- </article>
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