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...year of improvement based on a policy consensus between the Socialist government and the conservative opposition, which is currently expected to win parliamentary elections scheduled for March 16. Growth should accelerate slightly from last year's meager 1.4%, to 2.1%, because of what Chevalier called "a gift from abroad"--lower oil prices and a cheaper dollar. Inflation in France will dip from 4.9% to 4% this year, while unemployment will edge...
...reducing dependence on oil. Mexico needs to develop very aggressively its capacity to export goods other than oil. We need foreign investment to increase export capacity and [to enable us] to absorb modern technology. This goal requires considerable internal efforts and a climate abroad that will encourage investments in export products. No matter how hard we try in Mexico to increase exports, if the large markets do not give access to our export goods, the investor will not feel sufficiently encouraged to make the investments...
...least two other courses of action. One is for the U.S. to support the contras indefinitely as a way of distracting and bleeding the Sandinistas. Even if the contras cannot win militarily, perhaps they could provide insurance that the regime would be too busy at home to make mischief abroad...
...drawback of the fourth option, which is to keep the contra campaign going long enough to bring about a diplomatic solution. Like their mentor in Moscow, Soviet-style regimes are generically determined at least to neutralize, better yet to destabilize, and ideally to communize other states. They wage war abroad, either outright or by more covert means, for the same reason that they oppress internal opposition: because it is opposition, and because they are totalitarian. Genuine live-and-let-live peaceful coexistence is as alien to a Marxist-Leninist foreign policy as power sharing is to Marxism-Leninism...
...located several such prospective suppliers, according to prosecutors, was Samuel Evans, 50, an American who practices corporate law out of offices on London's fashionable Grosvenor Place. Evans allegedly found three groups that could obtain U.S. arms abroad, mostly in Israel...