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...complex, intimate and highly profitable for the Finns. Under special trade treaties drawn up every five years, Finno-Soviet economic ties have taken on an almost mercantilistic flavor. About two-thirds of Finland's oil conies from the Soviet Union, which in turn provides Finland with its largest export market. This year the U.S.S.R. is expected to take 24.6% of all Finnish exports. Under a special agreement, Finland pays for its Soviet oil not with money but with manufactured goods, machinery and construction services. As one result, Finland for the past two years has shown economic growth rates...
Besides buying such standard gear as pistols and window grates, residents are purchasing attack dogs, alarms that scream out "Burglar! burglar!" and even armor-plated cars usually made for export to the war zones of Central America. George Wackenhut, who heads a giant Coral Gables-based security firm that bears his name, has watched his business in South Florida grow by 22% this year. "When I was growing up, a murder story used to be good for ten days in the papers," says Wackenhut, a onetime FBI agent. "Here a morning kill may not even make the afternoon news...
...said, "We're always told that Arabs are all brothers, with one point of view. But they have totally different points of view on many issues." The participants came away deeply concerned about the difficulties the U.S. faces. John Beckett of Transamerica deplored the lack of a "decent export policy." Former Diplomat Sol Linowitz recommended that the U.S. "get its priorities about the Soviet Union reorganized." Summed up IBM's Watson: "It's pretty hard to sell democracy. While Soviet ideas are very hollow, they can be sold very quickly to people who have nothing more than...
...have yet another California President with yet another set of plans--including, it would seem, the intensification of civil war in Central America, the sacrifice of the elderly and the marginally employed to provide a shield against uncertainties in the market, and the export of adulterated foodstuffs to the underdeveloped world. The detachment of Four Good Things, its precision and meditative quiet, are new especially powerful, with the power art sometimes has of stinging us awake. In the last lines of the poem, as the narrator is falling asleep his wife describes to him an afternoon spent skiing...
...British sterling on the world's money markets. For months, Laker has been seeking extra time to repay loans he took out to buy DC 10s and European-made Airbus A300s for his fleet. Included in the debts are $160 million in direct and guaranteed loans from the Export-Import Bank, and $131 million borrowed last January from a syndicate of 14 European and North American banks. His reason for seeking the extension: to avoid having to pay an extra sum of at least ?6 million to his lenders as a result of the slide of sterling against...