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After a wave of bad publicity and a meeting with about 30 representatives of textile companies and unions, Coca-Cola announced last week that from now on any clothes bearing its name that are sold in the U.S. would be made in the U.S. Only Coca-Cola clothes sold abroad would still be made in Asia...
...Delta Force soldiers are accused of accepting cash advances for trips abroad, then routinely inflating claims of what they had spent and pocketing the difference. Fewer than 100 soldiers are under investigation by the Army...
...soil and an extended Caribbean growing season, Puerto Rico has not managed to produce enough food to sustain itself since the U.S. Army seized the island from Spain in 1898. Almost 70% of the commonwealth's food is imported; the government spends $1.2 billion a year buying groceries from abroad for its 3.3 million citizens. Local officials have tried without much success to stimulate food production. Though the commonwealth has spent $60 million to develop rice farming, only 3,000 acres have been brought into production...
...Japanese sentiments. Many students resent the fact that the benefits of Deng's reformist economic policies have gone to members of a Chinese elite that includes the well-connected children of Communist officials. The favored youth have a far better chance than most of getting good jobs or traveling abroad after graduation. Faced with a steep rise in the cost of living as a result of the reforms, many students are finding their already spartan daily lives less and less tolerable. Says a Peking university student: "Peasants are getting rich, workers get bonuses, but we still get our measly fixed...
According to its charter, the FBI runs Counterintelligence in the U.S., monitoring the activities of some 1,600 Communist agents; the CIA's work is limited to operations abroad. In J. Edgar Hoover's day, counterespionage was hampered by a lack of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA. "Hoover was difficult and vain," says one former top CIA official. "He thought he could run things by himself...