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...powerful forces for reform were at work. Fritz Leutwiler, an independent mediator and former Bank for International Settlements president, held private meetings with South African finance officials and representatives of 30 multinational banks to discuss repayment of South Africa's $14 billion in short-term foreign debt. The government froze payments on the debt seven weeks ago after many banks, fearful that racial violence would destroy the economy, cut off credit. Sources close to the meetings said their object was to find a way to restore South Africa's credit lines so it can renew normal international commerce and begin...
After Leibrandt was bled to death with two out in the ninth, some were saying Howser froze at the controls, though more likely he was silently adjusting to a declining confidence in Reliever Dan Quisenberry. Despite 37 saves this year, Quiz no longer seems made for such moments, and afterward he did not claim the last out as his rightful province. "The higher we think of ourselves," said Quisenberry quietly, "the more chances we have of being disappointed in ourselves." Kansas City could have taken this for an epitaph, but as Toronto learned in the American League play-offs, which...
...Naples, he produced astonishing canvases like his Crucifixion of St. Andrew. The saint is shown at the moment of his miraculous death, when soldiers attempting to take him down from the cross alive (which would deny him the martyr's death he prayed for) were thwarted when God froze them in a blinding flash of light. Here Caravaggio's sharp illumination is not just a pictorial device; it's God's own light, thrown onto the scene. The mocking figure at lower right is the Roman proconsul who ordered the crucifixion, dressed in the armor of Caravaggio...
...fact that those wretches nimbly harvested calorie-rich seals and whales using their technologically sophisticated kayaks. And amazingly, although the fjords and lakes of Greenland are crammed with scrumptious haddock, cod, trout and char, it never occurred to the Norse to go fishing, even as they starved and froze to death. They apparently considered fish taboo and beneath their dignity...
...survived at least three attempts on his life, is expected to investigate whether insiders were involved in Ahmad's escape. Warming Trend CUBA The European Union cautiously welcomed Havana's announcement that it was resuming diplomatic ties with eight E.U. member states, including Britain, France and Germany. Cuba froze relations with most E.U. nations in 2003 after the bloc decided to invite dissidents to embassy functions in Cuba, in protest at a crackdown on opponents of the regime. In December, the E.U. advised dropping that policy after a number of jailed dissidents were released. Slow Justice CHILE The Supreme Court...