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...have fled the country, some 40,000 of them to neighboring Mexico. Thus, when Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado last week praised Guatemala's democratic principles during his first state visit to that country, he was acknowledging an important change in the land that was once the jewel of the Mayan empire...
Dumping, however, can become a jungle of complications once lawyers or government bureaucrats get together and try to figure out what really happened. A trade negotiator in Tokyo says the U.S.-Japan semiconductor agreement, for example, is like the jewel beetle, an iridescent insect whose hue changes depending on which angle it is viewed from. "One guy thinks it's green," he says. "Another says it's blue...
...Crimson's goal for the 1987-'88 season is to capture the final jewel in that triple crown...
...Crown Jewel...
...want to get in touch with Master Terrorist Abu Nidal, the number in Damascus is 774236. That jewel of information comes from Mahmud Ibrahim Khaled, sole survivor of the four-man team responsible for the massacre at Italy's Leonardo da Vinci Airport on Dec. 27, 1985. According to senior judicial sources in Rome, where Khaled is being held while awaiting trial, the 20-year-old terrorist feels that he has been betrayed by his comrades and is willing to tell...