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...substantive pay hikes. Despite these moves, both investors and ordinary citizens were skeptical. In trading today, the peso weakened, slipping from 4.925 to close at 5.325 to the dollar. TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopez says Zedillo's success in bringing together labor and business is "a coup." Still, "people are a bit shocked that they're being asked to sacrifice so early in his administration," Lopez says. As one woman told her: "Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice -- we've been sacrificing already for years...
...already increasingly isolated and on the defensive against the tacit "red-brown" alliance of communists and ultranationalists. If democratic forces now become wholly estranged from the President, the odds increase that military factions disgruntled with Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis might stage a long- predicted military coup, neatly disguised as a necessary crackdown to prosecute the war. But the army itself is also divided; some officers far higher in rank than Major Victor consider the invasion a piece of bloody foolishness...
...former Berlin waitress, the statuesque bottle-blond owes her success to the decision by the fashion industry that Valkyries sell clothes better than do waifs. In an impressive coup, she was on the September cover of both Vogue and Harper's Bazaar...
There has been, of course, the success of the Pope's Crossing The Threshold Of Hope. (Harper Collins, not to be outdone by Knopi's coup, will be publishing the Dalai Lama's Essential Guide to Human Liberation, which is touted as offering "10 clear steps toward the peace and compassion of true enlightenment...
Yeltsin's fiction of noninvolvement vanished last week. The causes: a botched coup and POWS in danger. A coalition of anti-Dudayev forces had rolled into Chechnya's capital of Grozny in late November only to be repelled by Dudayev loyalists, who claim to have destroyed 20 tanks and killed 350 people in the fighting. They also captured 120 Russian soldiers among the rebels and paraded them on television. Back in Russia, the families of the prisoners identified their kin as members of a Russian army unit. Yeltsin could no longer afford to dissemble. Until then, Moscow had always insisted...