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...gaining ground in their struggle against the Muslim-dominated government in Khartoum. By now they have virtually taken over the southern third of Sudan, laying siege to its four largest towns and in the process, cutting off food shipments to at least 2 million famine-struck people on the brink of starvation...
...Dutch crew of two men and one woman waited anxiously in Newfoundland for a month before conditions finally allowed them to launch their 46-meter-tall balloon. But at last they caught the weather just right. After a flawless flight across the Atlantic, Pilot Henk Brink, 42, his wife Evelien, 31, and Fighter Pilot Willem Hageman, 39, last week became the first Europeans to accomplish the balloon voyage and, with a time of 51 hrs. 14 min., shaved more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey...
...Europe was on the brink of political disaster. In England, the year began with the death of much-beloved King George VI and ended with a crisis of leadership surrounding the eventual abdication of the playboy Prince of Wales Edward VII. France was paralyzed by a kind of national paranoic fear that money-grubbing businessmen were controlling the country to the detriment of the average working class and petit bourgeois citizen...
...twelve-member European Community pulled back from the brink of a major food war last week. After two months of intensive negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement in Brussels to lift mutual restrictions on some $1 billion worth of goods. Among other things, the E.C. concessions would lower tariffs on U.S. citrus products, almonds and other nuts, while the U.S. would shrink duties or raise limits on E.C. exports of anchovies, olive oil, paprika and cheeses...
...Stanley investment firm: "Capital spending is in the worst shape for any postwar expansion period." Roach projects that capital investment for all of 1986 will fall by 4.5%, compared with last year. Says he: "Every time such a contraction has taken place, the economy has been either on the brink or in the midst of outright recession...