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Independent labor organizers took advantage of the new atmosphere to spark a series of work stoppages that reached new peaks last week. Assembly lines ground to a halt at the electronics giants, Samsung and Lucky-Goldstar. Earlier, Hyundai Motor Co., producer of the popular subcompact Excel, lost $24 million after it failed to ship 6,000 cars. Though the government is leaving the search for solutions to labor and management, it began to move against the violence prone, arresting two workers for destroying an auto-parts factory and three fishermen for wrecking equipment in a Pusan market. Warned Labor Minister...
...energy-sapping weather seems to have reached all the way to the colder climes of Switzerland. In Geneva, superpower negotiations on nuclear weapons have not screeched to a halt, but rather have come inside from the lazy heat, turned on the air conditioning, and flopped on the couch for a nap. The meetings have been in the doldrums for quite some time...
...stood up against international bankers and defiantly proclaimed that his country would limit payments on its $14.3 billion foreign debt to 10% of Peru's export earnings. Last week he dropped another economic bombshell. During a traditional Independence Day speech to the Congress, Garcia said that in order to halt the growing flight of capital from Peru -- an exodus depriving the country of much needed funds for investment -- he intends to nationalize all banks and insurance companies and shut down private currency- exchange houses. Furthermore, selling dollars in the streets would be made a criminal offense. Only foreign banks with...
...America's stated goal is to protect oil shipments. But oil experts say the gulf war has stopped only 1% of tanker traffic. What's more, a halt in tanker traffic would damage Iran the most. Thus America's bold action is directly defending Iran's highest strategic interests...
...belongs in a feverish place like Miami: you are tooling along I-95 when an armored truck whizzes by. The back door swings open. Out falls a sack. Along comes another truck. Whack, it hits the sack. A blizzard of money explodes into the air. Cars screech to a halt, and people leap out, running every which way after the money...