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Similar despair was hitting small companies all over America. EZ Communications, a Fairfax, Va., broadcasting company with 15 radio stations, was expecting to raise $22 million in an initial public offering scheduled to take place the day after the market crash. Said Company President Alan Box: "These plans are now on hold for 60 days, six months, perhaps forever. We'll have to find other means of financing growth...
...private talks called a "national dialogue." The first round, held the week before the election, brought together about 30 Nicaraguan political parties, social and labor organizations, from conservative to extreme left. But those attending the talks have only a consulting role. National Directorate Member Carlos Núñez Téllez declares that giving authority to the group would constitute "putting a brake on the powers of the state." -By George Russell. Reported by June Erlick and Janice C. Simpson/Managua
...emergency, which allows the Sandinistas to control both the press and the army. Ortega announced that the opposition would be given equal media time and access to government funding, but it is still unclear exactly how freely it will be alc lowed to function. Junta Member Carlos Nuñez, wary of the boycott threat, hinted that the government might consider lifting the emergency law as early as April...
...visit to the Canal was especially meaningful for one Newstour participant, Veteran Negotiator Sol Linowitz, who helped accomplish the return of that waterway to Panama. Later, at lunch, President Ricardo de la Espriella and Foreign Minister José Amado III presented Linowitz with the Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Panama's highest honor, for his efforts on behalf of the 1978 treaty...
...confidence in the halls. Of this year's 300-plus seniors, 85% will go on to attend college (acceptance letters are plastered on one wall). The students have received offers of some $1.3 million in financial aid, compared with less than $1 million in 1978. Luis Nuñez, 17, who has seven brothers and sisters and whose mother is on welfare, has already been accepted by eight colleges, including Carleton and Oberlin, and has received a commitment from New York's Union College for $11,650 in financial aid, enough to cover the whole year. "I want...