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While Brazil and Argentina struggle, the two other largest debtors, Mexico and Venezuela, are continuing to make strides toward easing their credit crunches. Venezuela, which has a 16.9% inflation rate that is modest by Latin American standards, has reached a tentative accord with its banks to stretch out payments on $20.8 billion of its $35 billion debt over 12½ years. Bankers have agreed to give Mexico until 1999 to finish making payments on $28.6 billion of its $96 billion debt. Mexico gained the confidence of the bankers by reducing its inflation rate from 100% in 1982 to 59% last year...
Once the pipeline from the Melut Basin is up and running, revenues will be shared by the Khartoum regime and the rebel-led government of South Sudan, said Jemera Rone, a researcher at Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Until a final peace accord is reached ending the two-decade-long Sudanese civil war, the South’s share of oil revenues will accrue interest in an escrow fund, Rone said...
...focus of the UNH offense with a goal and an assist. With the stanza passing its midway point, the winger carried an outlet pass from the Wildcats’ zone through neutral ice and into the Crimson end by himself, where, had he not fallen down of his own accord, a 1-on-0 surely would have been his. He would nearly find redemption twice in quick succession before all was said and done, though...
...UNH’s offense with a goal and an assist. With the stanza passing its midway point, the winger carried an outlet pass from the Wildcats’ zone through neutral ice and into the Crimson end by himself, where, had he not fallen down of his own accord, a 1-on-0 surely would have been his. He would nearly find redemption twice in quick succession before all was said and done, though...
...wills between Washington and Damascus has created dilemmas for Hizballah. The group fears that the anti-Syrian protests may accelerate demands that Hizballah disband its military wing, in accord with U.N. Resolution 1559. A Syrian pullout would deprive Hizballah of a powerful ally on the ground and could choke off the Syrian channel for military supplies from Iran, Hizballah's main sponsor. Nasrallah is concerned that Lebanon will move into the U.S. orbit and face pressure to sign a peace treaty with Israel. While Nasrallah lauded Syria, he was careful to hold the demonstration under the colors of Lebanon...