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Particularly galling to many Mexicans are the efforts by some Administration officials to invoke the domino theory to justify U.S. policy in Central America. Despite a crippling economic crisis that has produced triple-digit inflation and a foreign debt of nearly $90 billion, Mexico does not see itself as the final battleground if the U.S. does not draw the line against Marxist advances elsewhere in the region. They resent the implication that they too are a banana republic, and suspect that talk of Mexico as the ultimate domino is only a smokescreen. As Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME...
Faced with triple-digit inflation, the government tries austerity...
...became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio in 1979 and became Deputy Prime Minister, joining Begin in opposing hard-lining Ariel Sharon and helping to hold together a Cabinet divided over last year's invasion of Lebanon...
...investment firm A.G. Becker Paribas gave their vote of confidence to Volcker, with Alan Greenspan a distant second at 5.8%. Monetarist Milton Friedman got only 5.5%, Treasury Under Secretary Sprinkel 2.5%, and Fed Vice Chairman Martin less than 1%. More than half the executives fear a return to double-digit inflation if Volcker is replaced. So bullish is Wall Street on Volcker that Charles M. Lewis, vice president of Shearson/American Express, predicts that "the day the reappointment is announced will see the Dow rise 35 points. Nobody ever made more money in the market than they made under Volcker...
Since that game the Crimson has blown out all but one of its GBL opponents by double-digit margins. And yesterday in Kingston, the batmen displayed some of their hitting prowess...