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Despite its difficulties, the Persian Gulf financial community is not about to crash. It has holdings of an estimated $70 billion, and 34 of the world's 500 largest banks are located there. But prospects for future growth are dim. The Iran-Iraq war has made raising funds more difficult. The $94 billion collapse of Kuwait's unofficial stock market in 1982 badly undermined confidence, and repercussions continue to be felt. Finally, Western bankers will be leery about doing business there until legal uncertainties are clarified. A British lawyer working in Bahrain points out that it took the West nearly...
...Falklands war, the invasion of Lebanon and the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Says Mader, a veteran State Department and European correspondent: "Although the initial indications were that only 40 or 50 people were dead in Colombia, I sensed a potential calamity and a major story, possibly even a crash cover...
Consider some of the changes this fall. After killing off Bobby Ewing in a car accident last spring, Dallas has resurrected Mark Graison (John Beck), another ex-beau of Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal), who supposedly went down in a fatal plane crash a couple of seasons ago. That other hardy band of TV survivalists, the Carringtons of Dynasty, emerged from last spring's terrorist machine-gun attack with hardly a scratch among them, and are now cloning a new series, Dynasty II: The Colbys. Over at Falcon Crest, Apollonia, the sexy rock singer and protégé of Prince, has joined...
...gets to win this time. Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger make every infidel bleed red, white and blue. And now, Mikhail Baryshnikov stars in a parable about a ballet star who eight years ago sought asylum in the West only to plunge into a refugee's nightmare: his plane crash-lands in Siberia, and he's back in the U.S.S.R. Once again, the good guys wear white, the bad guys...
...concession to U.S. negotiators, Viet Nam agreed in principle last month to joint MIA recovery operations, scheduled to begin this week at the site of a 1972 B-52 crash near Hanoi. There is good reason for Viet Nam's newly cooperative mood. Its annual per-capita income is roughly $125, and the $2 billion a year it receives in assistance from Moscow is not likely to increase. Viet Nam is said to want the MIA problem solved as a first step toward restoring official relations with the U.S. and establishing economic ties. Washington insists that it will not consider...