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That is surely good news for Aquino, whose People Power revolution helped drive former Strongman Ferdinand Marcos from office just over one year ago. Since then she has been beset with a mild flurry of rightist plots aimed at either unseating her or destabilizing her government. An 18-year Communist insurgency stopped briefly but resumed with a vengeance last February. For the economy, the result was that the Philippine GNP, which had dropped 5.6% in 1984 and another 3.8% in 1985, continued to fall through the first half of 1986 before ticking up an almost unnoticeable...
...fiery American preacher as he prowled the stage with Bible held aloft, "but it doesn't matter, because you're going to a better place anyway!" To many of his eager listeners in a San Salvador stadium, the distant hope of heaven may have been at least momentarily alluring, beset as their nation has been by a seven-year guerrilla war and a moribund economy. When the preacher later assured them that "terrible times are coming," the applause of approving believers reached a thunderous peak...
...centers and office buildings from California to Florida. Along the way, it attracted such blue-chip investors in its projects as Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and the Hall family of Hallmark greeting-card fame. But in the past few months, Kroh has virtually collapsed. Beset by lawsuits and shunned by wary lenders, the company is now struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 provisions of the bankruptcy law. The brothers who ran the firm for 18 years -- John Kroh Jr., 46, and George Kroh, 49 -- have resigned, and a battalion of lawyers is trying to sort...
...other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset the nine-month-old conservative government of Premier Jacques Chirac began to look like those of Italy -- not the Italy of recent political stability, but the once notorious Italy of disorder and unpredictability in the 1970s...
...surely was. Flying mostly at altitudes of 8,000 ft. to 15,000 ft. and averaging 115 m.p.h., Voyager was beset by storms that battered the plane and severely jostled both pilots over stretches as long as 18 hours. The most precarious moment occurred near the end of the voyage, over western Mexico, when the plane's rear engine, the only one running at the time, temporarily died. Over the next 90 sec., before the front engine was started to compensate for the loss, the craft plummeted from 8,500 ft. to about...