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...that requests from members countries should be judged solely by economic criteria. Certainly, South Africa needed the money. Its balance of payments, deficit last year reached $3.8 billion and is expected to go higher a reflection of the sharp drop in the price of gold, the country's main export And in the past the IMF has loaned funds to other countries with questionable human rights records, like Argentina, Nicaragua and EI Salvador...
...1970s Mulcahy had managed to pull himself together. Then he ran into Edwin Wilson; Mulcahy signed on with Wilson's Washington-based arms-export firm. For a time, Mulcahy thought the company was a sub rosa CIA enterprise...
...using the equipment to help establish a complex communications network that would serve much of the Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then came the Reagan Administration's abrupt ban on U.S. export deals related to the pipeline, and by last summer Andrew's French connection looked broken. But the company, which first sold stock to the public in 1980 and has seen its value more than triple since then, did not give...
...They are still recovering from the shock of an abortive coup d'état last December. It was staged by dissident Shi'ites, members of a Muslim sect that dominates Iran and constitutes a majority in Bahrain. The nation is an obvious target for Iranian attempts to export the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. One of the masterminds of the December "incident," as it is called in Bahrain, was Hadi Modaresi, a mullah who had lived in Bahrain during the rule of the Shah and fomented trouble among the Shi'ites there. After the fall...
...film--a 1981 Brazilian export--depicts the rise and fall of Xica's influence in the Portuguese colony of Arraial do Tijuco. Initially a slave for a transplanted government official, Xica dominates her owner and his son with her unusual sexual prowess. But Xica sets her sights on more ambitious conquests; and what she wants, she gets. She manages to capture the mind and body of the new Portuguese governor. As the governor's slave, Xica wields her effervescent sensuality to the hilt, thus ascending to the most prominent social position in the land. Xica's fairy-tale-like climb...