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...will be a tough problem for Zedillo, but only one of many. Another will be how to keep interest rates high enough to attract new investors without sending them so high that they force Mexico into a recession. Commercial lending rates have already almost doubled since the devaluation, to hover around 40%. Credit-card rates are more than 50%. Yet another problem will be how to keep a lid on inflation, which the devaluation is sure to fuel. Perhaps the biggest will be to restore confidence in the fledgling presidency of Ernesto Zedillo...
...black families earn less than $220 a month. Half the black population is illiterate and half its work force has no job. Development experts say the national economy must grow at 3.5% a year to make even a dent in joblessness; the growth rate this year is expected to hover between...
...forum expected inflation to hover around a mild 3% in 1994, which will be reminiscent of the price-stable 1960s. The big reason: wage hikes, the main ingredient in most price increases, will stay low as employers continue to cut labor costs. However, Donald Ratajczak, director of economic forecasting at Georgia State University, noted growing signs of labor unrest. "The American Airlines strike may have been a watershed," he said, referring to the Thanksgiving-week walkout by flight attendants, which ended when Clinton prodded the company to seek binding arbitration. "This is the beginning of intensifying wage pressures...
...strange how many ghosts hover around Somalia. There is, of course, the big dark ghost of Vietnam, that formative evil myth of Clinton's generation. That war, like the Somalia conflict, was dominated by images injected into the American psyche -- the Viet Cong in a plaid shirt being shot in the head point-blank by Saigon's police chief during the Tet offensive, for example. The experience of Vietnam issues its warnings ("quagmire" and so on), but strangely, Bill Clinton the old war resister last week used much the same rhetoric of steadfastness and honor that Lyndon Johnson used when...
...much for the fantasy. We waded ashore in Somalia to feed the hungry. Now our gunships hover over Mogadishu shooting rockets into crowded villas. Blue- helmeted U.N. troops, once a symbol of ineffectiveness but at least innocuousness, now fire into a crowd of demonstrators. At least 20 women and children die. The Security Council stoutly defends the massacre...