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...audience that froze the night, the mostly young, carefully dressed crowd of black men, women and children who had clearly come home to Brother Farrakhan. Discount some of their zeal as a thumb-your-nose-at-Whitey exercise. Discount some as exuberance or hysteria in numbers. Still, the Garden heaved with hatred. If you closed your eyes you could picture all the hate mobs ever--Khomeini's mob, Kahane's mob. Their hatred was palpable, enormous. It changed reality. Suddenly the crowd was in the millions, encompassing the living and the dead...
...billion debtor, had persuaded bankers to stretch out many of their loans. Adhering to their agreements with the IMF, the Latin countries were struggling to reduce inflationary government spending and curb expensive imports. Even Argentina ($50 billion), which last year took a defiant stance toward its creditors, successfully froze wages and prices last summer and issued a new unit of currency, the austral, which is equal to 100 old pesos. As a result, Argentine consumer prices rose only 2% last month, compared with a 30% rise in June...
...score, following the weather's example, froze at that point, and the Crimson held out for four more arctic innings to wrap up an 8-2 victory at Soldiers Field...
...advantage of the higher prices paid for milk and cheese surpluses. In 1973 the Government purchased only 1.9% of milk products, but by 1980 its share of the market had grown to 7%. In 1981, in a feeble stab at slowing production, Congress dropped parity as an index and froze the price at $13.10 per hundredweight. Still production rose. In 1983 the Government bought 12% of all dairy products and stored away an incredible 17 billion lbs. of butter, cheese and dried milk. The cost to taxpayers had risen from $136 million in 1973 to more than $2 billion. Congress...
...Toronto, a Latin American refugee, 26, froze in terror when a well-wisher brought him a gift basket that included two pineapples. In the refugee's native country, he had been forced to watch as his military captor hacked several prisoners to death, then carved up a ripe pineapple with the bloodstained machete and calmly ate the slices...