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...Cognac, where signs in five languages welcome visitors to "the City at the Heart of the World." It is no idle boast. Cognac (pop. 20,000) exports 95% of its brandy, $2 billion worth a year, west to musty men's clubs of Manhattan, and east to Japan, where businessmen buy it packaged in Baccarat crystal at $1,000 a bottle. The French drink less and less cognac. "We've been switching to whiskey ever since the Americans liberated us in '44," says Jean-Luc Lebuy, a Remy Martin executive. He voted for the treaty, he said, because...
...economists who think such a development might not be all bad. Says Paul Craig Roberts, a political economist at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies: "I meet these people all the time. Some of them are rather entrepreneurial" and are beginning to act more like capitalist businessmen than like communist apparatchiks...
Almost as varied as Bartley's ultra-diversified menu is its clientele. "I get all types--students, businessmen, older people," says Joe Bartley. "We get the melting pot, that's what's fascinating about...
...spare the nation a prolonged governmental paralysis. Collor's hopes of hanging on nearly disappeared last week when a congressional commission concluded after a three- month investigation that he and members of his family had received $6.5 million from his former campaign fund raiser, who extorted large sums from businessmen hoping for government contracts or favors. Lawmakers will vote on whether to accuse Collor formally and start a trial in the Senate sometime this month -- if the President can survive in office even that long...
Though it has been little noticed by the press, Robinson and like-minded black politicians and businessmen have been gradually doing away with the double standard that condemned oppression by South Africa's white regime while ignoring oppression elsewhere on the continent. As long ago as 1990, a group including Robinson, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King and several black elected officials and labor leaders issued a statement calling for an end to the "violence and tyranny" inflicted by Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's one-party government. Robinson has since repeated the criticism in appearances before U.S. congressional committees, adding...