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- Apr. 19, 1993: Indecent Proposal
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <body>
- <p>By CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY
- </p>
- <p>Indecent Proposal
- </p>
- <p> Would you bomb part of what used to be your country for,
- say, $1 million? Some RUSSIAN FLYERS have apparently been
- willing to sell their lethal skills for just a few thousand
- dollars. Former Soviet pilots are acting as mercenaries and
- flying Su-25s in sorties against positions in the republic of
- Georgia for a mere $5,000 a trip. The money is being paid by
- Abkhazian separatists trying to force Georgian President Eduard
- Shevardnadze to let their enclave become an independent state.
- </p>
- <p>(Formerly) Red Ink
- </p>
- <p> Pravda, once the proud voice of the Soviet Communist
- Party, is so strapped for cash that it has closed its offices
- in Mexico and Canada as well as three of its four bureaus in the
- U.S. Pravda's Washington bureau chief, Vladislav Drobkov--now
- the last representative of his paper left in the U.S.--had to
- miss the recent Clinton-Yeltsin summit in Vancouver because he
- couldn't afford the trip.
- </p>
-
- <p>Clinton Goes Acourtin'
- </p>
- <p> New York Governor and alleged Supreme Court candidate
- MARIO CUOMO may not have been all that close to being measured
- for a black robe. A source involved in the White House search
- for a Supreme Court nominee says there was no background work
- under way when Cuomo took himself out of the running; in
- contrast, background checks were already well under way for
- other candidates. What this suggests is that Clinton may have
- simply been stroking the Governor's ego with his talk of Cuomo's
- fitness for the high court.
- </p>
- <p>Dear Mr. and Ms. President...
- </p>
- <p> Aides say the volume of Hillary Rodham Clinton's incoming
- mail is "way ahead of anything that's been seen before" by a
- First Lady. Since Hillary's father took ill last month (he died
- last Wednesday), her mail has doubled and now stands at about
- 20,000 letters a week. President Clinton's mail is also heavy--1 million pieces in the first six weeks. That's half the
- amount Bush received in all of 1992.
- </p>
- <p>Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, Rage
- </p>
- <p> Campus activists are helping plan a "National Day Of
- Outrage" on April 19 that will include acts of civil
- disobedience against Immigration and Naturalization Service
- offices. It will be a show of support for HIV-infected Haitian
- refugees who are being barred from entering the U.S. In a
- preliminary protest last week, about 50 students at New York
- University law school began their leg of a relay fast that
- started at Yale.
- </p>
- <p>Between Rock 'n' Roll and a Hard Place
- </p>
- <p> Clinton and Al Gore are still rockers at heart. The day
- before the FOREST CONFERENCE in Portland, Oregon, Clinton and
- Gore both hoped to attend an environmental rock concert
- featuring Neil Young, Kenny Loggins and Carole King. But
- political instincts won out: Bill and Al decided that attending
- the concert risked incurring the wrath of loggers.
- </p>
-
- <p>The Most Dangerous Game
- </p>
- <p> AIDS is no game--except in Japan. Medic, an Osaka-based
- software company, is selling a popular video game in which
- players simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV infection until
- death. The name of the game: Jinai Seijin, which means "Saint
- of Godly Love" (the manufacturers wanted an upbeat title). The
- plot of the game centers on a 25-year-old who strays into a
- red-light district and later suspects he's become infected with
- HIV. Players then have several choices, including promiscuity,
- suicide or a life with a girlfriend who also has AIDS. The game,
- developed by an ex-medical student, is meant to be educational
- and entertaining.
- </p>
-
- <p>THE WRITE STUFF
- </p>
- <p> The secret to a best seller is getting just the right
- person as co-writer. Presidential-campaign strategists James
- Carville and Mary Matalin just snagged writer Peter Knobler
- (who's worked with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to help them craft their
- political chronicle. Other possible subject-writer pairings and
- the books that might result:
- </p>
- <p> Woody Allen + Robert Fulghum = Everything I Learned in
- Kindergarten I Still Use in Relationships
- </p>
- <p> Chris Webber + Stephen Hawking = A Brief History of
- Time-Outs
- </p>
- <p> Boris Yeltsin + Gloria Steinem = Revolution from Within
- </p>
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