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Inasmuch as the dollar had remained unusually strong for four years, its drop was a belated blessing to many. American exporters applauded the change since it should lower the price of their goods abroad and make imports more expensive. That would help arrest the growth of the trade deficit, which is heading toward $150 billion this year. Says Harvey Bale, an assistant U.S. trade representative: "This adjustment is welcome. The dollar was way out of line...
...started innocuously enough: a credit card customer in Connecticut opened his monthly statement and noticed a charge for a piece of electronic equipment that he had never purchased. By last week that apparent billing error had blossomed into a full-fledged hacker scandal and led to the arrest of seven New Jersey teenagers who were charged with conspiracy and using their home computers and telephone hookups to commit computer theft...
...should understand the principle of blind justice better than Attorney General Edwin Meese. Still, he may have been slightly taken aback when he learned that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Meese's trouble started two weeks ago, when a municipal court clerk in Los Angeles accidentally discovered the five-year-old warrant while scanning computer records. The top cop, it seems, had committed the crime of jaywalking in 1980, right in front of Ronald Reagan's California campaign headquarters. His fine: $10. When Meese, then Reagan's chief of staff, did not pay the penalty, it automatically...
...fine had been paid. Meanwhile, back in the computer room, another desperado came to light. On the night when the future Attorney General of the U.S. was caught crossing the street illegally, the President's campaign manager was cited as well. Still outstanding is a subsequent warrant--for the arrest of CIA Director William Casey. ENVIRONMENT Killer Bees Buzz California...
Ever since Mandela's arrest in 1962 on charges of attempted sabotage and treason, his former deputy, Oliver Tambo, now 68, has run the A.N.C. from exile, currently in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The A.N.C. has received support from the Soviet Union, as well as some Western nations, and is increasingly co operating with the also banned South African Communist Party. The alliance has made it convenient for the Pretoria government to describe the township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number...