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<title>
Aug. 31, 1992: Grapevine
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Aug. 31, 1992 Woody Allen: Cries and Whispers
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 13
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<p>By Janice Castro
</p>
<p>JUST MAKING A FEW REPAIRS
</p>
<p> Jim Baker's return to the president's side has been
described to key Republicans as the "cold war pivot." Having
teamed up with Bush to kiss the communist threat goodbye, the
honchos were told, Baker will now act as a sort of deputy
President, managing the campaign, then leading a sweeping
domestic agenda during a second Bush term. But the truth is that
Baker is only making an emergency house call as Mr. Fix-It. If
Bush wins re-election, Baker has told friends that he will help
tool up a domestic strategy and hire the right folks to run it.
then he'll scoot right back to State. Says an aide: "A big part
of it is putting the right crew in place, which we definitely
don't have right now."
</p>
<p>WAS THIS STUFF ON CNN?
</p>
<p> If U.S. forces attack the Serbs, the Americans will try to
minimize casualties by using top-secret electronic and chemical
weapons tested during the Gulf War. Cruise missiles generating
devastating electromagnetic fields will knock out power plants
and transmission towers as they fly over them, while destroying
all data stored in tapes and disks at the targets. Other
missiles will release showers of carbon-fiber dust to short out
electrical installations. A CIA chemical, sprayed on roads or
airfields, will rot tires. And if operatives can get close
enough, a new microbe, dropped into fuel tanks of jets, tanks
and trucks, will be brought into play to turn the fuel into
useless jelly.
</p>
<p>THE ESPIONAGE GOES ON
</p>
<p> Viktor Oshchenko, a diplomat in the Russian Embassy in
Paris, was a British double agent for years. Last month Moscow
asked him to come home. Fearing the worst, he defected to
London. MI-6 is now debriefing him at a safe house. He must know
plenty: Moscow has since recalled at least a dozen of his fellow
spies from Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and the
Netherlands. Oshchenko specialized in stealing science and
technology secrets. Says a senior British diplomat: "The
Russians' need for everything is more desperate than ever
because of the country's abysmal shape."
</p>
<p>FOX IN THE PEACOCK COOP
</p>
<p> When Barry Diller quit last fall as chairman of Fox, where
he ran the film studio as well as the television network, he
said he wanted to own something. Something sizable. Apparently
he has been trying to buy the NBC television network from GE.
The deal fizzled this summer, but Diller has told friends that
"a window of opportunity" remains for the revised proposal he
is preparing.
</p>
<p>SAME TO YOU
</p>
<p> President Bush was unfazed last week when a gay activist
who had sneaked into the press section confronted him during a
rally in the Astrodome. As the demonstrator shouted, "What about
AIDS?" and waved an unrolled condom at the Commander in Chief,
Bush muttered, "Oh, look! New press credentials!"
</p>
<p>SCORECARD
</p>
<p> Every party has its moments. Here are the high points of
the Democratic and Republican conventions:
</p>
<p>-- BEST SPEECHES
</p>
<p> D Barbara Jordan topped Kennedy and Cuomo.
</p>
<p> R Barbara Bush's family reunion and "Gampy's" casual
arrival at the end of it.
</p>
<p>-- SPECIAL EFFECTS
</p>
<p> D Clinton's "spontaneous" entrance into the darkened hall,
anointed by a beam of light straight out of Close Encounters.
</p>
<p> R The balloon blizzard at the finale and Bush's batting
them around like a schoolboy.
</p>
<p>-- FEATURED GUESTS
</p>
<p> D Among the women on the podium at Madison Square Garden
were several Republicans.
</p>
<p> R The G.O.P. sported two beloved former Presidents and a
gaggle of Olympic heroes.
</p>
<p>-- SCENE STEALER
</p>
<p> D Perot suddenly announced that he was dropping out.
</p>
<p> R Perot suddenly announced that he might run after all.
</p>
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