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...terms of corporate restructurings, cost cutting and providing executives with lucrative stock-option incentives. If they are right, the region is ripe for some strong market surges. Loretta Morris, manager of the Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide Growth Portfolio, is finding dozens of stocks to her liking, especially among export-driven companies benefiting from weakening currencies. Her favorite countries are Germany, the Netherlands and France. Favorite stocks include the French oil company Elf Aquitaine, Dutch electronics-giant Philips and German carmaker Volkswagen...
...your article "The American Invasion" (Sept. 17), you mistakenly claimed Pamela Lee for the United States as an export to Spain. Actually, Pamela Lee is from British Columbia, Canada, and, thus, you might want to write another article on Canadian entertainment exports to the United States...
...from approaching and easily disabling the larger mines. Clinton's decision to join the Ottawa process came abruptly, less than a week after the Pentagon was patiently explaining that the U.S. wouldn't join because the talks "do not involve other countries that have huge inventories and which actually export them." Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who has assembled 60 votes for his proposal to outlaw land-mine deployment by the year 2000, praised the switch, even with its caveats. "The Administration's come a long way toward my position in the last couple of days," he said...
...mail by encrypting it with secret codes so powerful that even the National Security Agency's supercomputers would have a hard time cracking it. Such codes are legal within the U.S. but cannot be used abroad--where terrorists might use them to protect their secrets--without violating U.S. export laws. The battle between the Clinton Administration and the computer industry over encryption export policy has been raging for six years without resolution, a situation that is making it hard to do business on the Net and is clearly starting to fray some nerves. "The future is in electronic commerce," says...
Templesman, a diamond dealer with long experience in Africa, was seeking loans from the Export-Import Bank and loan guarantees from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a multimillion dollar diamond deal in Angola. After the meeting, a sympathetic Lake decided to intervene: he directed an NSC staff member, with approval from legal counsel, to call Ex-Im and OPIC. The message: Templesman's venture had "merit." But TIME has obtained the text of a recent letter from Angola's ambassador in Washington that bluntly asks the U.S. to stop attempts to broker a diamond deal and, in an apparent...