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...make it Monte Carlo, not Macau, which today has little more visual appeal than Shenzhen. Hong Kong does not need millions of low-income tourists playing pennies on the tables or in the slot machines. It does not need to cover its beautiful islands with holiday villas for businessmen and bureaucrats from Guangdong and high-rise hotels ? la Benidorm...
...government is still hoping for growth of around 5% this year?if the Arroyo crisis doesn't drag on. But it may prove hard to hang on with so little support from businessmen and her former Cabinet members. The Philippines may avoid a nonconstitutional overthrow like a military coup or another People Power revolt if Arroyo chooses to surrender power to her Vice President, former news broadcaster Noli de Castro. But De Castro, who served as a Senator before becoming Vice President last year, is best known to the public for his television career, not for accomplishments in office...
...meantime, a special South African parliamentary committee is studying the impact of sanctions and exploring ways of circumventing them. Businessmen are attending strategy sessions on how to continue exporting iron, steel and other goods despite the U.S. boycott. Under discussion are techniques ranging from the creation of foreign "front" companies to the rerouting of trade through such neighboring black states as Lesotho and Swaziland...
...Botha government may focus additional wrath on the white dissenters in its midst. According to the magazine Financial Mail, Finance Minister Barend du Plessis recently told its Washington correspondent that "when the time comes," Pretoria will "know what to do" with South African businessmen who have been strenuously pressing for racial reform...
...craze heated up this summer, spurred by the Home Shopping Club, a live 24-hour program based in Clearwater, Fla. Started in 1982 by two local businessmen, Roy Speer and Lowell Paxson, the program was originally seen in just 125,000 homes in Florida. After going national in July 1985, the show now reaches more than 10 million cable households over the Home Shopping Network. A rotating crew of 24 hosts with such names as Budget Bob Circosta and Bubblin' Bobbi Ray dangle and demonstrate products, while operators on 400 toll-free lines plug the orders into video-display terminals...