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Under the relief plan, borrowers could exchange current loans for new ones that would be smaller in principal or would pay lower interest rates. To give bankers an incentive to accept such arrangements, the IMF and the World Bank are debating whether to provide partial guarantees for some of the borrowers' interest payments...
Environmentalists are not even suggesting that existing wells and pipelines should be shut down. But there is a broad consensus in the state and in Washington that current operations must be made fail-safe and that the oil companies should not be trusted to do this on their own. Immediately after the Exxon Valdez incident, senate President Kelly began to draw up plans for what he calls a Spill Response Corps, to be organized by the state but paid for by the oil companies "as part of the cost of doing business here." And Governor Cowper insisted on a credible...
...members of Congress are also fresh from election. But this doesn't count, the argument goes, because Congress has "less turnover . . . than in the Supreme Soviet," as former President Reagan has complained. Only six House incumbents lost re-election bids last year, and more than 85% of current members won by over...
What makes Lebanon's current predicament more hopeless than ever is the disintegration of the presidency. Somehow the office had survived previous crises nominally intact as the main symbol of Lebanese nationhood. But when President Amin Gemayel's six-year term expired in September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak...