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Bangemann's appointment promises to bolster the F.D.P.'s status in the governing coalition. The Free Democrats have slipped badly in public opinion polls, and lost all four of their European Parliament seats in the elections. Unlike his predecessor, however, the new minister knows little about economics and inspires scant confidence among West Germany's business community...
...Kuwaiti military is as small and eclectic as the country itself. Its scant force of 12,500 untested men is unlikely to be of much help in defending Kuwait's borders if the Iraqi defense crumbles before Iran's long-promised land invasion. In order to bolster their collection of French Mirage jets, British tanks and American antiaircraft missiles, the Kuwaitis recently signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with the French and the British to upgrade their defenses. When the U.S. balked last week at sending the antiaircraft Stingers, one Kuwaiti official responded that "the arms...
Many economists fear that counter trade could severely weaken, rather than bolster, international commerce. It fosters bilateral agreements at the expense of multilateral trade and can reduce over all world commerce. Says Franklin Root, head of the Wharton School's international business program: "Such arrangements are anathema to the free market." Others disagree. Zenon Carnapas, head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, says that countertrade deals are "a solution of last resort" for struggling LDCS. Still, no one disputes that postwar prosperity was built on the foundation of free and growing trade among nations...
Samols says that while most of the leaders have come through word of mouth and that the program has not done any publicity or advertising, he plans to announce it next year to FOP leaders and freshmen who participate in FOP to bolster the leadership...
...part of the process of establishing his authority, Chernenko has been the beneficiary of a campaign to bolster his image. Photographs have been distributed showing the grandfatherly leader in informal poses that recall Brezhnev. The day before Chernenko was elected President, Krasnaya Zvezda, the Defense Ministry's official newspaper, published an article that patched what had been a large hole in the new leader's career: his military record. Chernenko did not fight on the front lines in World War II, but, according to Krasnaya Zvezda, he did battle bandits and anti-Soviet rebels while guarding the border...