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...refugees had left Petit-Trou in the first place four months after the coup that deposed Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, when soldiers began arriving in trucks to round up suspected supporters of the exiled President. They hunted in particular for a group of 65 young men who were organizing a peasant co-op. Desperate not to lose the best of its youth, the community elected to pour its savings, its hopes and its most promising citizens into a single boat to America. Selling everything but their beds, the town cobbled together $1,650 and persuaded its wealthiest resident...
Stunned by the legislative coup, Japan is now thoroughly absorbed by its newly chaotic politics. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor arrived in Tokyo Tuesday looking for someone in the mood to negotiate in preparation for the Group of Seven summit meeting next week. It is unlikely that Miyazawa's lame-duck government will offer any major new trade concessions or initiatives to help boost the world economy, increasing chances that the Tokyo summit will be stillborn...
...players on top of the old, a process Bush practiced so faithfully it became known derisively as "composting." Moreover, liberals ranging all the way from twentysomething staff members to Hillary Rodham Clinton are unlikely to let Gergen steer the President too far into conservative country. "Gergen has mounted a coup," said a former Bush official, "but there are a lot of rebels at large who are armed and dangerous...
...Soros has the golden touch. But unlike the miser of mythology, he is happy to part with his wealth. A latter-day Robin Hood, he takes from the exchequers and pockets of the rich West in order to provide much needed capital for the poor East. After the sterling coup, Soros wasted no time in redistributing the spoils: within the next three months he set up a $100 million fund to support science in the former Soviet Union, organized a $25 million loan to Macedonia and then made the largest single private donation ever to a humanitarian cause when...
...brain maker. Part of Intel's success has been its ability to stay a step ahead of the chip manufacturers making cheaper versions of Intel's high- performance product line. One of these is Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), based in nearby Sunnyvale, which has just scored a coup in the constantly changing world of chip competition: a judge overturned a jury verdict that AMD did not have the right to sell a clone of Intel's popular 486 chip. Naturally, AMD said it would immediately begin selling its own 486 chips...