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...outside firms will prevail in Russia? Christopher Weafer, chief strategist at Alfa Bank in Moscow, talks about Russia as a "triple- layer" economy: on the top is the nation's fiscal strength, on the bottom the roiling consumer sector (mobile-phone subscriptions notched up another record in March, and Ford sold one-third more cars in the first quarter of this year than it did a year ago). But Weafer cautions about the middle layer: energy and other areas that could be construed by the Kremlin as being of strategic value. There, investment risk is greatest due to the lack...
...time against U.S. policy, which did upset all three Presidents. (They complained a little bit among themselves in Rome.) But the Clinton and the Bushes are forgiving people and would have locked arms and marched off in harmony as a threesome, the world's most exclusive fraternity. Jerry Ford was asked to go but at 91 he has ruled out long jet hops...
...Meantime, the media is keeping a close eye on these fragile but game new stars. A few weeks ago the Atlanta Constitution ran a lengthy piece on the Carter-Ford relationship, with Carter proclaiming , "I don't know of any basic philosophical differences between me and President Ford ...Our friendship is warm and enduring." The passage of time obviously increases understanding. Carter and Clinton both criticized Ford for pardoning Nixon in 1974; now both say Ford was right. Secretly, the Bush people chortle that Clinton on many issues has become a Republican...
...days ago a reporter phoned the Ford office in Palm Desert, California, inquiring if it was true that President Ford was on death's door. "He's out playing golf," nonchalantly explained a staff member, who gets such queries with regularity. In fact, being President and even an ex-President is obviously very good for one's health...
...mere survival. He sees his witness against apartheid as a fight for U.S. blacks as well. "For black Americans, a response to South Africa is a response to them," he says. "This is a test of our own democracy." Next on his agenda: deploying pickets against IBM, General Motors, Ford and other major U.S. corporations that do business with South Africa. Says Robinson: "They are providing the legs on which this monster walks." --By John S. DeMott. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington