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BUSINESS: LOOSENING THE ECONOMIC GRIP...
...middle of a visit to Washington by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, Secretary of State James Baker unveiled a series of admittedly "small" confidence-building trade-offs designed to get the antagonists talking. The Palestinians are being asked to moderate the intifadeh in exchange for a looser Israeli grip on the occupied territories...
...dank atmosphere that nurtured this tangle of alleged corruption began after the Socialists' re-election in 1985. Papandreou was eager to tighten his grip on the country. He found a perfect match in the ambitious young publisher and banker Koskotas, who saw in PASOK a means to build an empire...
Choice. The idea sounds so compelling compared with the tyrannical grip most public schools have over families. But it is a policy that excites divergent passions. "No school district can please all students all the time," Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich told educators who gathered in Minneapolis two weeks ago. "But without choice, school districts have little incentive to change...
Months of deepening tension between its bitterly divided national republics and ethnic groups have brought Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations. Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians joined the strike, forcing the resignations of provincial Communist Party boss Rahman Morina and other officials considered to be puppets of Serbia...