Word: fighting
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...local farmers. Inevitably a battle erupted between farmers and profiteering smugglers that has yet to quiet. "Smuggling is unfortunately the No. 1 growth industry in Haiti," says a Western diplomat. "Crime is not far behind." Last week the government called upon the public to cooperate with security forces to fight "acts of banditry and terrorism...
...brilliant than it was in the past, but I mean it positively, a spectacularly brilliant orchestral sound." Soprano Benita Valente, who sang there before and after the renovations, calls it a "little brighter, but glorious." Violinist Isaac Stern, president of Carnegie Hall and one of the leaders in the fight to save it from demolition in 1960, says, "What you hear now is this golden wash of sound, and at the same time there is clarity...
...most credible rightist threat is the Conservative Party, which currently holds 18 seats in Parliament. It will fight the election on the easy-to-understand platform of a return to full separation of the races, a policy it calls "partition." Says Spokesman Cornelius Mulder: "Subdivide the land; don't share political power." But even Conservative Leader Andries Treurnicht, who accuses the Nationalists of capitulating to black demands and endangering white South Africans, entertains no hope of taking over the government. He and his strategists would like to win enough seats to replace the moderate Progressive Federal Party as the official...
...same time, there were pleas for friendship and trust. Said one student who is about to go into the army: "I guarantee to you that I will not invade your country." While most expressed support for the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, one student admitted he would not want to fight there: "I'm ready to die for my homeland; I'm not ready to die for others." Donahue, meanwhile, acted as defender of the American system without jingoistic excess. When one youth claimed that all U.S. policy is dictated by the "military-industrial complex," Donahue shot back, "You have just...
Sometimes a city is hurt when its leading company becomes embroiled in a takeover fight. As headquarters for Phillips Petroleum (1986 revenues: $10 billion), Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 35,000), paid its own price after the eighth largest U.S. oil company fought off takeover raids by T. Boone Pickens Jr. in 1984 and by Carl Icahn the following year. Though Phillips kept its independence, it took on some $4.5 billion in new debts and was forced to shed $2 billion in assets in a subsequent reorganization. Partly as a result, Phillips employment in Bartlesville, which had peaked...