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Among U.S. defense contractors, few would seem better structured to survive the end of the cold war than the giant St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas (1989 revenues: $14.6 billion). The company's civilian subsidiary, Douglas Aircraft, is the second biggest manufacturer of U.S. commercial passenger jets after Boeing, with 12% of the world market and an unprecedented backlog of nearly 1,200 orders and options on its books...
...murdered presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, dozens of cocaine laboratories have been torched, one top drug baron has been killed, hundreds of suspects have been arrested, and more than a dozen extradited to the U.S. In response, Escobar has unleashed a campaign of terror that has claimed some 300 civilian lives. After two successive weekends of violence in Medellin took more than 40 lives, the government two weeks ago extradited two more suspected cartel money launderers to the U.S., reaffirming Colombia's will...
...Increase federal spending next year by 12% on civilian scientific and commercial research, 22% on nonmilitary space research and 14% on the National Science Foundation. The changes called for in SII are long term, and will require politically difficult legislative decisions, so the effect of the agreement remains in doubt. America's trade gap with Japan is already narrowing; the real impetus of SII could be political. A theory in Tokyo is that the U.S. acts as the opposition party in Japan, pushing the government toward market reforms that benefit Japanese consumers. Last week the process may have worked...
...money, but money itself, an onlooker begins to understand, is almost without psychological weight to the top players. Eric Drache, who runs the cardroom at the fancy new Mirage casino here, was offered a job once when he was a full-time card player. He had to ask a civilian friend whether $150,000 was a good year's salary. It didn't sound like much to a man who was usually up or down more than that after an evening's play. Unofficial side games here routinely slosh with more money than the World Series itself. Hundred-dollar bills...
...provoke the military to repeat the butchery of 1988, which resulted in the massacre of more than 3,000 demonstrators. The league can hope only that the apparent longing for democracy displayed by soldiers at the ballot box will translate into a public show of support for the civilian leaders who stand poised to return Burma to the civilized world...