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...Vries warned that the debt situation is creating a "serious financial crisis." So far, a patchwork of new loans from private banks and increased lending by major governments and the International Monetary Fund has rescued Mexico, Brazil and other developing nations from default. Nonetheless, frightening risks remain. If, for example, the price of oil were to drop rapidly, debt-laden oil-producing countries such as Mexico and Nigeria would face a financial crunch. Said Greenspan: "There might be a financial run on those countries. Lenders could pull their money out and blow a hole in the system." De Vries suggested...
...debtor in the developing world; the country's public institutions and private businesses owe an estimated $87 billion to foreign creditors, $67 billion of it to banks. As TIME's Board of Economists met last week, some were fearful that the cash-strapped South American nation would default, an event that could shatter the increasingly fragile international banking system. The possibility sent world financial leaders scrambling to prevent a crisis...
...they come due or balk at granting new ones. Since Brazil, like other borrowers, is accustomed to "rolling over" its debt - lately it has been borrowing perhaps $1 billion a month for every $400 million it repays - any pulling back by lenders threatens to throw the nation into default. Last week that almost happened...
Debt as well has so far proved a manageable problem. By cooperation on a case-by-case basis, the board noted that banks and governments in the industrialized world so far have staved off the nightmare of a major default by cash-starved borrowers ranging from Mexico to Poland. And though unemployment is currently at 10.5% of the labor force in Western Europe as a whole, and rising, the specter of inflation is receding. By next December, according to Board Member Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president for Crédit Suisse, inflation should have...
...Crimson demonstrated some superlative wrestling from the onset of the tournament. Tri-Captain Paul Widerman dominated every opponent in his weight class until knee problems forced him to default in the finals to Columbia's Larry Kain, who Widerman defeated in a convincing 12-2 decision earlier...