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...three days the weather achieved what Clinton could not, stemming the tide of rafters. On the beach at Guanabo, east of Havana, Saturday night's forecast is for 15-ft. waves and more rain. The balseros along the shore use their time to work on their rafts, dream, complain. Jorge Luis, 36, introduces his raft's crew. "Just because we're discontented, we're considered antisocial," he says. "But in fact we're all professionals. Cuba is like a prison these days. You work one month to eat one day. You . . . " And then he pauses and smiles, surveying one raft...
...Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Congress that traditional statistics like the consumer price index may be less accurate a forecast of inflation than signals from financial and commodity markets. His testimony before a House subcommittee shed some light on reasons why the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates four times in 1994; the board is widely expected to hike rates for the fifth time when it meets again this week...
...would include only developments in Washington -- not any financial and real estate dealings in Arkansas by Governor Bill Clinton and his wife. Moreover, says someone familiar with the March meeting, Leach warned that "the chance was very real that Fiske was going to say no laws were broken ((a forecast that has proved precisely accurate)) and that we would hold a hearing that would be a big nothing." New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, however, argued that Republicans should grab any opportunity to embarrass the Administration...
...MONDAY, MORE THAN 300,000 SWARMED TO THE ESPLANADE IN BOSTON TO HEAR THE BOSTON POPS PLAY IN THE HATCH SHELL AND TO WATCH FIREWORKS LIGHT UP THE SKY OVER THE CHARLES RIVER. DESPITE THE FORECAST, THERE WAS NO RAIN WHATSOEVER--BUT TO THOSE WHO GOT THERE EARLY TO SECURE A GOOD 1SPOT, THE DAY SEEMED LONG...
...Then earlier this month Bonn reported that the West German economy, after its worst recession in 40 years, expanded at a 2.1% annual rate for the opening quarter of 1994, as compared with the same period last year. This was the first such gain since 1992. The government also forecast a 1.8% increase in Germany's G.D.P. for this year, to be followed by a 2.5% gain in 1995. "The recession is behind us," asserts Gert Becker, chairman of the German Association of Chemical Firms...