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After several days of debate, the delegates voted unanimously to ante up an increase in the IMF's $15.6 billion fund, which is used to bail out countries in financial distress. Most countries will probably get a 25% rise in their assessments, but certain ones that have been doing particularly well of late-such as Japan and West Germany-are expected to be asked to contribute even more. While the IMF met, delegates to the World Bank, the IMF's sister institution, also gathered in Tokyo; over strong objections from the Latin Americans, Filipinos and Iraquis, they approved...
Leaky Pipeline. Indeed, Hearst's serial paid less tribute to the enterprise of journalism than to the astonishing porosity of the supposedly secret Warren Commission's report. In the wake of publication, the commission's chief counsel, J. Lee Rankin, expressed his distress, not that the confidential transcript had been leaked, but that anyone might think a commission member had leaked it. "There were other people who had access to the testimony, lawyers for the defense and the prosecution during Ruby's trial," he said. Going somewhat above and beyond the call of duty, the commission...
...Pivot." The battle lines for the Capes were sketched while George Washington was encamped in the Hudson Valley in even direr distress than at Valley Forge. Lord Cornwallis had taken Charleston and was moving up to fortify Yorktown...
Judy Collins, 25, is neither a novice at her art nor as unfamiliar as some of her contemporaries with the sensation of distress. The folk circuit, her "road to communicate," is a lifetime's journey from the days when she performed as a piano soloist with the Denver Businessmen's Symphony. Seattle-born and Denver-bred, she was influenced by her blind father, who emceed a local radio show ("a potpourri of philosophy, piano and good music," she recalls...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress...