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...first test case for the Brady plan is appropriately Mexico, whose economic distress is fully matched both by its strategic significance to the U.S. and by the avowed commitment of its leadership to reform. Mexico has drastically cut spending and started selling inefficient state enterprises. Still, the economy is stagnant. No wonder. The equivalent of about $13 billion a year that might otherwise go to internal investment or the purchase of imports is being siphoned off to service Mexico's nearly $100 billion debt. Under quiet prodding from Washington, the Mexican government and a consortium of international banks have been...
Responding to Haynes' distress call, air controllers directed the plane to continue eastward for an emergency landing at Dubuque, Iowa, 240 miles away. The pilot sensed a momentary regaining of some control. But then he lost it again. At 3:20 he declared that he faced an "emergency" and had to find the nearest landing spot. Controllers suggested he turn back to the west to reach Sioux City, a Missouri River town where one of the airport's runways is 9,000 ft. long. That could easily handle a DC-10. But Sioux City was 70 miles away...
...Kennan says little in Sketches about the great distress the Soviet Union caused him. In fact he was expelled from the U.S.S.R. in 1952 for criticizing the government. "I was interned . . . in Germany for several months during the last war," he complained to reporters while traveling in West Berlin. "The treatment we receive in Moscow is just about like the treatment we internees received then." Soviet officials considered his remarks ! "slanderous attacks . . . in a rude violation of generally recognized norms of international law." Soon afterward Secretary of State John Foster Dulles terminated his career...
...rates to keep German inflation in check. The move briefly touched off fresh fears of a worldwide round of rate hikes and slower growth. Meanwhile, competition from Japanese and European firms that have opened U.S. offices is helping depress Wall Street commissions. Wall Street is not alone in its distress, for such financial centers as London and Tokyo are experiencing similar overcrowding...
They said the submarine managed to surface for a time in the Norwegian Sea after the accident occurred and that at least one Soviet ship had responded to a distress call and arrived on the scene...