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...days after the election, Alfonsin retreated to a ranch at an undisclosed location to plan his agenda. The most immediate problem is the country's growing debt. Alfonsin inherits an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for short-term loans to prevent a default, in exchange for the imposition of austerity measures. Bernardo Grinspun, the President-elect's chief economic adviser, estimates that Argentina will need at least $14 billion next year simply to meet its debt payments. During the campaign, Alfonsin promised to study the repayment agreements, but his advisers say they will not be discarded...
...case against the central bank president be dropped, González del Solar was freed and flown back to Buenos Aires aboard the President's personal F-27 jet. Bignone meanwhile had gone on national TV to reassure citizens. Gonzalez del Solar's imprisonment and the looming default, he said, were "inconveniences everyone knows about...
...Crimson dug a deep hole for itself on Friday. A Knee injury to Friday Smith forced her to default on her number two singles and number two doubles matches. By the end of the day. Harvard trailed the Tigers by 50 points...
Several seemingly minor imbroglios kept relations icier than ever. Consider the Hukuang Railroad bonds affair, a legal chestnut dating back to securities issued by the imperial Chinese government in 1911. Last year a U.S. district court in Alabama issued a default judgment against China to the tune of $41 million owed on the bonds. When the U.S. granted political asylum to the young Chinese tennis star Hu Na in April, the Chinese bristled and cut back on a whole range of cultural exchange agreements...
THAT WILSON'S revival of deterrence among policymakers should go largely unanswered by his colleagues at Harvard and elsewhere is disturbing. Indeed, Wilson seems to have earned his reputation as a crime expert chiefly by default. If enough scholars responded to his frequent excursions into policy circles and the general media, discussion about crime might start to make progress instead of heading into the past...