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...slump is leaving a junkyard of bankrupt companies in businesses ranging from retailing to innkeeping. Last week Eastern Air Lines, which has struggled in bankruptcy since March 1989, closed down after 62 years of flying. The carrier, which has 18,000 employees, was forced to halt operations because of a cash shortage and lack of any buyers. Since December, Continental and Pan Am have filed for Chapter 11 protection...
...pull up to the sidewalk and come to a screeching halt. the street, as far as the eye could see, is littered with debris--shards of glass, plastic window shades and pieces of twisted, gray shrapnel. All the buildings are pockmarked, scratched up. Dazed residents pour out of their houses, many still in their pajamas. The police work quickly to seal off the area of impact...
...Adams and other officials have spent months trying to convince the military that staying out of politics is in its best interest. When the soldiers heeded the advice last week and sent Lafontant packing, Adams called it a "glorious day for democracy." Aristide should now have his chance to halt Haiti's long spiral into chaos...
...previous competence had been unquestionable, he now has no immediate family or close friends who could tell a court whether he wanted life-prolonging care. In June an Eau Claire County Circuit Court judge decided that L.W.'s legal guardian, Paul Lenz, has the right to decide whether to halt life supports. Lenz has appealed to the state supreme court for guidance...
Catholic prelates, long passive in the face of creeping Protestantism, are increasingly jittery about the threat. Brazil's bishops have debated plans to halt the worrisome defections. Guatemala's Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio issued a harsh letter charging that the U.S. government is boosting Evangelicalism to "help consolidate its economic and political power." Pope John Paul II believes the inroads of unnamed "sects" could become "disastrous." During last year's tour of Mexico, designed in part to counter Evangelicalism, the Pontiff directed clergy to abandon "timidity and diffidence" in combatting their rivals...