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When the international bankers just over a year ago indicated that they would not extend new loans and would not roll over the loans to the South African government then in place, the South African government responded in anguish. It froze funds, forbade financial transfers out of the country, stopped trading the Rand and began a campaign to keep the money flowing...
...encounter was not merely a reunion between two long-lost comrades. For nearly a quarter-century, the Chinese and East Europeans have been bitter ideological enemies. All East bloc governments except Rumania froze relations with China in the early 1960s, following Mao Tse-tung's falling out with Moscow over doctrinal disagreements. Honecker's trip to China last week was the first formal state visit by a Warsaw Pact Communist Party chief since that chilly era, and it signaled what Hu called a "new phase" in relations between the two countries. It came less than a month after a more...
...fleeing employees through a side exit, shooting one man, who later died in the parking lot. Bolting several doors, he sought out workers cowering under tables and in cubicles, killing three people in one work station, five in another. Debbie Smith was sorting letters when the shooting started. "I froze. I couldn't run. He came to shoot the clerks in the box section next to mine. I just knew I was next." But as she hid, Sherrill passed her by and opened fire on the next section. As Smith ran for the front door, she said, "I could hear...
...McClue played a rhapsody, Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul. Charlie Hinch had a rough start on The Oak Grove and said out loud, "I need a drink of whiskey." He got the feel of it at last, but when he came to Brahm's Lullaby, he froze. "Marge!" he begged, and she appeared from the kitchen and placed his hands. "You've got it now," she said. "You sure?" he asked, and then played it fine. Albert Tesch, the town plumber, came in on the organ next and offered a sweet Carolina Moon and If I Loved...
...learning about the SEC investigation, Levine ordered Meier to get rid of his passport and other documents at the Bahamian bank. On May 9, SEC officials say, Levine tried to transfer $10 million from the Bahamas to a bank account in the Cayman Islands. At that point SEC officials froze Levine's accounts and, along with U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, filed charges against him in Manhattan. Said the SEC's Lynch: "It demonstrates that people who think they can violate federal securities laws by using foreign accounts are mistaken...