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...presidential race is Gennadi Zyuganov, a smooth customer and an opponent of Boris Yeltsin's in the last days of the U.S.S.R. As observers both Russian and foreign point out, Zyuganov can preach it round or flat. He sounds like a social democrat when he meets with Western businessmen and diplomats, reassuring them that he favors a "mixed economy." To the party faithful, however, he puts forth a harsher anti-Western, sometimes anti-Semitic message...
...question is not ironic. For if most investors would hesitate to bet on a basket case, the five businessmen who launched the Casino Queen in June 1993 recouped their money in six months--and have been raking in profits ever since. Meanwhile, taxes on the riverboat's $150 million annual revenues have doubled the city's budget to $12 million, allowing East St. Louis to reduce property levies 30%, slash its debt, double the number of police officers and patrol cars, and thus cut the murder rate by a third. The boat, with 1,250 workers, is now the city...
...August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian businessmen...