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- <text id=89TT2243>
- <title>
- Aug. 28, 1989: Grapevine
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 13
- Grapevine
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- <p> ROLE MODELS. Abandoned by Washington and their Honduran
- hosts, the anti-Communist Nicaraguan contras are drawing
- inspiration from a most unlikely source: El Salvador's Marxist
- Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Contra leaders say
- the "low-intensity, dirty war" the Salvadoran rebels wage,
- focusing on economic sabotage, is the way to go for guerrillas
- with limited resources.
- </p>
- <p> DAUGHTER DEAREST II. If Patti Davis annoyed her parents
- Ronald and Nancy Reagan with her debut novel, Home Front --
- about a befuddled former Governor of California and his
- ambitious wife -- she's sure to send them around the bend with
- her second book, Deadfall. Due out in October, it's a political
- potboiler with a familiar plot: a right-wing Administration
- searches for a pretext to invade Nicaragua. The characters
- include a fanatical CIA director, a colonel who stops at nothing
- and a President who becomes a willing pawn of the villains. So
- much for a family reconciliation.
- </p>
- <p> "HOT RABBIT." What does Argentina's Carlos Saul Menem have
- that his predecessor Raul Alfonsin did not? Apparently, a long
- list of girlfriends. Two gossipy French magazines, Le Nouvel
- Observateur and L'Evenement, have said in print what Argentines
- had been whispering: that the new President is one "hot rabbit."
- L'Evenement dedicated two pages to the President's amorous
- adventures, quoting some of the many lovers he reportedly had
- before and during his 23-year marriage. Argentines must hope
- their new President is as good at foreign affairs as he is at
- domestic one.
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