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...computers and modems have been holding back. Two years and $20 million after New York's Chemical Bank launched its Pronto service, for example, only 21,000 of its 1.15 million customers are using it. And even as new banks come on-line, a handful (including San Francisco's Crocker National, Los Angeles' First Interstate and Miami's Dadeland Bank) have quietly discontinued their electronic services. "It's slow going," admits Paul Ayres, a vice president at Columbus' Huntington National. "It's one of those products customers aren't beating down our doors and demanding...
SECOND VARSITY 1 RADCLIFFE (bow Laurie Doucette; 2, Lauren Crocker; 3, Mary Farrell; 4, Christina Erickson; 5, Serena Eddy; 6, Anne Gregory; 7, Liza Paschal stroke Jocelyn Mcarther; coxswain Rachel Ward) 2 Brown 3, Northeastern...
...system of apartheid is totally repugnant to me," said U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington, responding to questions about the Uitenhage tragedy. "The pattern of violence has underlined how evil and unacceptable that system is." Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Chester Crocker, who was in Cape Town for talks with South African officials, declared that "the cycle of violence must come to an end now." But President Reagan, speaking at his news conference on the day of the killings, suggested that "rioting" marchers were at least partly to blame for the clash and pointed out that "some...
...Administration sought to stem the rising tide by having Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs, explain the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement." Crocker complained that the policy, largely his creation, has been misunderstood. "It is not an embracing of any status quo," he said, adding that the U.S. has supported those black union leaders, students, clergymen and businesses seeking reforms in South Africa. The Administration contends that economic sanctions have rarely proved effective and could not be expected to have a great influence on such an embedded practice as apartheid. Jimmy Carter's more...
...first indication that Angola would consider reducing the Cuban force as part of a regional peace package. Meanwhile, South African diplomats said they will meet with Angolan officials this week to discuss the pullout of some 2,000 South African soldiers who are still in Angola. Said Crocker: "We consider these recent developments to be positive and view the door to an overall regional settlement to be open...