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...party state is digging a grave for Zimbabwe and will lead to disaster," Nkomo said last month. Smith, whose Conservative Alliance holds seven of the 20 seats reserved for whites in the 100-seat House of Assembly, charged that one-party rule would "mean we are prepared to forgo our freedoms, the basic fundamental rights enshrined in the United Nations charter...
...superpowers hold pistols to each other's heads; they forgo large-scale defenses to make their suicide pact more credible, but they continue to proliferate and refine their offensive weapons. In so doing they put their arsenals on hair trigger; the danger grows that in a crisis or an accident, one or both fingers could twitch...
...order to campaign against the resolution, the well-known gnomes of Zurich were forced to forgo their normally reclusive ways. At endless town and village meetings, they argued that passage would seriously threaten Switzerland's position as the world's third leading banking center, behind New York City and London, and cause economic catastrophe. Nikolaus Senn, head of the Union Bank, Switzerland's largest financial institution, maintained that foreign funds would flee the country, leading to a collapse in Swiss stock prices, a jump in interest rates and the loss of thousands of jobs...
...examples of the past have a way of being misapplied to the present. Our experience in Southeast Asia does not teach us never to use force, but rather to employ it carefully. As Walter Mondale points out, "The lesson from Vietnam is not that we should forgo power everywhere at all times." But Gary Hart apparently wants to do just that. By unilaterally withdrawing American military might from Central America, he would foresake the chance for democratic change and endanger our own backyard. Hart's battle is long over: it does not belong in an area so close...
...American. C. Edward Acker, 54, once the risk-taking boss of Air Florida, was so convinced that he could turn around Pan American World Airways that he made a daring bet. If the airline failed to make money on its 1983 operations, Acker would forgo his chairman's salary of $475,000. Acker won his bet. Pan Am had a slim operating profit of $52.4 million last year, vs. a loss of $314.5 million in 1982. Predicts Acker: "We will continue to improve service by every means possible. We are going to move forward with even stronger results...