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...National High Magnetic Field Laboratory will be located at Florida State University but run by a consortium that includes the University of Florida in Gainesville and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which is run by California's state universities...
These appearances prove that the clever dictator is working all the angles to shore up his position. Baghdad has yet to gain a major ally, and few cracks have fractured the international consortium ranged against it. Iraq's economy and morale are under siege, its pipelines closed, supply routes in doubt and food supplies dwindling. The unattractive nature of his options must be coming clear to Saddam...
Next month the 47-nation International Bureau of Exhibitions (B.I.E.) will choose among Venice, Hanover and Toronto as hosts for the fair. A consortium of 40 companies, ranging from Fiat to Benetton, Olivetti to Coca-Cola, is mounting a vigorous campaign for the honor, arguing that the Expo would breathe life into the area's failing economy. But the city's devotees from around the world are convinced that if Venice wins, it will be lost. "The Expo would be a biblical disaster," says outgoing Mayor Antonio Casellati. "We would be signing the city's death sentence...
Nonsense, retort the Expo's supporters, led by Italy's Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis, who is using his position to pressure some of Italy's allies into supporting the proposal when it comes to a vote. He and his fellow advocates, including his brother Cesare and the business consortium, argue that the fair would transform Venice into the "new capital of Mitteleuropa," a center of communications and research. Half the local population has abandoned the city in the past 40 years, they note, leaving behind a hollow tourist playground built on a crumbling, honeycombed island. Without such an ambitious...
...transport pact, and an investment treaty. The U.S. and its allies could also block Moscow's entry into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund and other international bodies, and restrict Soviet access to funds from the nascent European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a consortium of 42 nations...