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...Panama City with five assistants, he was barred from operating. Panamanian doctors at the Paitilla Center explained that their medical and national sensibilities had been deeply offended. They would not serve as "medical gofers," or errand boys, to the Yankee surgeon from Texas, they said. One official government newspaper, Crítica, even commended the local doctors for having "courageously defended Panamanian sovereignty...
...over and that the Liberals would not dare risk an election with a lame-duck leader, Clark brought out a belt-tightening budget, which Finance Minister Crosbie described as "short-term pain for long-term gain." The Tories did not even attempt to obtain the support of the Créditistes or the New Democrats, which could have kept them in power. When the three opposition parties joined in backing a New Democrat motion of no confidence after the budget had been presented, the Tories lost by three votes. Clark was forced into an election at a time when...
...Welthandelzen-trum. The translation is of more than casual interest to the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, which in terms of assets (about $50 billion) ranks fourth in the world, after San Francisco's Bank of America, New York's Citibank and France's Caisse Nationale de Crēdit Agricole. The bank has approached the W.T.C.'s owner...
...Dominican priests who run the college made plans to attend the dead students' funerals and visit the families of those who were injured. Fire officials sifted the debris for clues to the cause of the blaze. The most likely suspect: the gooseneck lamp that had illuminated the cardboard cr...
...electric presence on the museum, gallery and crafts-fair circuit, logging 40,000 miles on her cultural missions. Just as zealous on the home front, she decided to hang handmade ornaments from 60 U.S. craftsmen and -women-cornhusk dolls, beaded Indians, crocheted icicles, free-form tin stars and batik crèche figures-on the 12-ft. Christmas tree in the vice-presidential mansion. "We will use them all. If we can't squeeze them on, we'll dangle them hither and thither," promised Joan delightedly. Her selection to top the tree: a blue-and-white, stuffed-velvet...