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...nervous consumers cleared store shelves of essential products like rice and oil in anticipation of shortages and steep price increases. The hoarding made an inauspicious start for President Alberto Fujimori, who began his five-year term last week without delivering an expected recovery plan to reduce rampant underemployment and curb the country's 3,000% 1989 inflation rate...
...collapse of the real estate market in several sections of the country. The mighty Japanese, now far and away the world's biggest banking players, are also being squeezed. Japanese banks face rising interest rates that boost their costs at home and new international capital-reserve requirements that curb their lending abroad. In Europe, considered the premier expansion market in the 1990s, the European Community's July 1 deregulation of financial flows across most members' borders is expected to accelerate the merger movement in the Continent's highly protected banking industry. West German banks are also preoccupied with the beckoning...
...choke hold they had been using to apprehend suspects after several people died while in custody. Contends Don Jackson, a former police sergeant in the suburb of Hawthorne who has become a crusader against racially motivated police brutality: "They don't have white kids sit on the curb when they talk to them. They don't have white men and women put their hands out of the car and dump the contents of their pockets and purses on the car. What they get away with is intentional violation of these people's civil rights...
...while the council has taken almost no action to curb development in the city, CCA backers say that one of the key problems they face lies in the composition of city boards and commissions--an area of government over which the council has no direct control...
What troubles blacks is that De Klerk has made no real effort to curb the steady rise of these groups. Terre Blanche claims "tens of thousands" of supporters, though the real number is probably far fewer. De Klerk insists . that "a small band of extremists" will not succeed in derailing his plans for reform...