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...consulted adequately with European lending partners in his haste to fashion aworkable peso rescue package. "We would have wished the coordination to have been a little tighter," Finance Minister Theo Waigel told reporters. The International Monetary Fund approved the $17.8 billion plan Wednesday, despite surly abstentions from Britain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. "They literally got the proposal an hour before it was announced," says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It does appear that Clinton has broken a few eggs on the way to making this omelette." U.S. officials told Ratan that Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is attempting...
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...COMMONSENSE OUTRAGE: To swipe at oppressive government regulations, Gingrich produced a first-aid heart pump. "What I want the American people to understand," he said, is that this pump that was "invented in Denmark increases by 54% the number of people with CPR who get to the hospital with a chance to recover. The Food and Drug Administration makes illegal ((a product)) that minimizes brain damage, increases the speed of recovery and saves money." Using this pump is just "common sense," Gingrich insisted, implying that the FDA's intransigence costs lives...
News of the spill was contained much more effectively than the oil. It wasn't until weeks later, when an American oil-company worker was brought in to consult on the cleanup, that the rest of the world learned what had happened. The U.S., Germany and Denmark have offered to help, but by week's end the Russians had not responded. To hear Bibikov talk, they won't have to. He claims that the oil fouled only a few miles of the nearby Kolva River and that the water has been 90% cleaned up. The remaining oil, he says, covers...
...Asia. It has been reprinted six times in Britain, where in May it received the daily Independent's 1994 foreign-fiction award. Sorrow of War appeared on the shelves in Sweden in April. It will go on sale in France, Norway and Italy later this year and in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the U.S. next year. The English version is already available across Asia but is hard to find. Ninh, who is writing his next novel on the war, will receive half the $15,200 Independent prize money but little more. He still supports his wife and child...