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...trampled underfoot in the headlong rush to place women--any women--in high positions. It also denigrates women and tends to limit the number of real women powerholders, the Sansone candidacy being a case in point. It also keeps women out of major positions which carry more than symbolic import. State parties are quite willing to nominate women for lower, largely figurehead posts, but there are currently no women governors. Only two gubernatorial candidates nationwide today are female...
...many, France seems to be playing the "oil card" in the Middle East, to the detriment of the Jews. The French must import 75 percent of their energy, so self-interest often supersedes morality, and the French often come across as avidly anti-Israel...
...loans over the next three years. Banking sources said that the request might be approved within six weeks, which would in turn give the commercial banks enough confidence to reschedule Mexico's debts. But the IMF is likely to demand some painful belt-tightening measures, including wage freezes, import restrictions and reduced government subsidies, which could dangerously aggravate social tensions in Mexico...
...advertisements are not conspicuous. They do not cover billboards or blare from the television set. They appear instead as small-print public notices in local newspapers or obscure items in official Government publications. Taken together, though, their import is unmistakable: the U.S. Government is about to hold its biggest real estate sale since the opening of Oklahoma...
...into effect drastic austerity measures, including import restrictions and foreign exchange controls. Nonetheless, the stores of Asian traders in Nairobi were still full of luxury imports available to the economic elite and the more blatantly corrupt members of Moi's own government. Warns one Nairobi businessman: "Unless the government does something drastic to improve the situation, all hell is going to break loose...