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Shrewd, grasping, rich old Cesar Soubeyran (Yves Montand) and his simpleton nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) covet their neighbor's land. Each has his reasons, but they are not good enough. Not enough, that is, to justify their terrible plot to force the decent, innocent newcomer known as Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu), his patient wife and lovely child to sell their holdings at a distressed price. The Soubeyrans' idea is simple: stop up the neighbor's spring. But the execution is grim and protracted; the plotters stand by, offering sympathy but no practical assistance as Jean descends first to exhaustion...
...some Third World debtors, like Brazil (foreign debt: $110 billion), that have nonetheless managed to lend money to other developing nations. In the past four years alone, the Paris Club has been able to reschedule more than $63 billion worth of uncollectible obligations. The volume of rescheduled debt, says Jean-Claude Trichet, the sharp-eyed Cabinet director of France's Finance Ministry, "shows that we are living in dangerous times...
...grow more hectic, if only because the Third World debt crisis, particularly in Latin America, is again worsening. Warns Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, co-chairman of First Boston International in New York City: "Only if commodity prices rise faster than interest rates can Latin America make it." In other words, Jean-Pierre Marlet at the Club de Paris may be getting more misdialed calls than usual this year, and over at the Louvre, Jean-Claude Trichet may be working harder than ever...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Emily Friedrich, Susan Lynd, Camille Sanabria News Desks: Brian Doyle, Frances Fiorino, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Susanna Mary Schrobsdorff, Adam Sexton, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley, Arturo Yaez...
...calls for democratic elections in November. But last month the military government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy, 54, took control of the electoral process from a provisional council. Although Namphy rescinded the decree last week, his regime's action prompted the worst crisis in Haiti since the ouster of Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier 17 months...