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...Jones industrial average closed at 3768.52, down 3.70 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index was down 0.17 to 254.17. . . Nasdaq Stock Market composite index rose 1.05 to 743.43 . . . American Stock Exchange up 0.75 to 442.59 . . . Gold dropped 30 cents to $380.40 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.21 percent, down from 7.27 last Friday...
...unspeakable savagery triggered by the death of Rwanda's President ((RWANDA, April 25)) has a cause even more basic than the long-simmering tribal hostility between the Tutsi and Hutu. Rwanda, with low life expectancy, education and GNP, measures high on the index of human suffering. Deprivation, environmental degradation and desperation have exacerbated tribal rivalries and exploded into mass murder. What Rwanda really needs is family-planning educators and providers, along with equal rights for Rwandan women, because when women make the reproductive decision, family size declines. The influence in Rwanda of another male-dominated hierarchy, and an anti-choice...
Overseer Thomas S. Murphy, chair and chiefexecutive officer of Capital Cities/ABC, sits onthe board of corporate heavyweights such as IBM,Johnson & Johnson and Texaco--all of them membersof the Standard & Poors 500 Index...
...European portfolio MITTS in a market-index, targeted-term security. It's an equity-link note. This one had 90% principal protection, plus equity upside in its European portfolio." The specimen is Jamie Greenwald, 30, managing director of global equity derivatives for Merrill Lynch. He reports, with satisfaction, that the Japan index "provides upside in the market in Japan in a domestic instrument, U.S. dollar-based, no currency risk, no downside risk: worst case you've got about a . . . ((pause)) . . . 2.34% yield. That was very applicable to pension funds, to insurance companies, to mutual funds...
...meet the press after a long flight of tippling. The widespread impression Yeltsin has made on a nation renowned for its fondness for vodka was perhaps summed up best by his chief rival, Alexander Rutskoi. Last September, during a speech denouncing Yeltsin before the national assembly, Rutskoi flicked his index finger into the side of his neck several times. It is a gesture recognized even by schoolchildren to indicate an excessive fondness for the bottle...