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...Shanghai, once considered China's most progressive and cosmopolitan city, has fallen behind Peking, Canton and even Chongqing and Shenzhen in embracing the reforms. Shenzhen has set up more joint ventures (150, in contrast to Shanghai's 90), while Canton, one-third Shanghai's size, has more private enterprises (100,000 vs. 90,000). At this rate, Shanghai is in danger of losing its traditional role as the commercial and industrial hub of China. "There is an evident lack of creativity and drive," complains a middle-level city official. "We may have been safe and steady, but the pace...
...ways of doing business in China. Instead of investing only in projects that were part of Peking's Five-Year Plan, the innovative agency roamed the country in search of profitable opportunities wherever they might be found. Noting a growing demand for beer, CITIC created a $30 million joint venture with Japan's Suntory to expand production. The initial results were so encouraging that output will be doubled during the next two years...
...Force's 1st SOW is equipped to transport Special Forces; so is the Army's Task Force 160 of the 101st Air Assault Division. The Rangers, 1,800 strong, see themselves as the elite light-infantry unit; so does the entire 198,000-member Marine Corps. The Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Agency, established in 1984 to advise on policy, is run by Marine Major General Wesley Rice. Yet until 1985, the Leathernecks had no Special Forces and historically eschewed their importance. Not surprisingly, the Marines' new experimental unit is studying hostage rescue, something both the Army's Delta Force...
During the 28-hour visit, the two Arab leaders met four times, twice alone. What was said during their seven hours of private discussions remains undisclosed. No joint communiqué was issued. Jordan's Prime Minister Zaid al Rifa'i revealed only that the talks had covered regional developments, Arab cooperation and bilateral relations. There were unconfirmed reports that Assad and Hussein had agreed to exchange ambassadors. But there were no hints that either man had yielded on two main points of contention: how to resolve the Palestinian question and how to end the gulf war, in which Jordan supports Iraq...
...court calculated to be worth $188,800. The court noted that Loretta O'Brien had sacrificed her educational and career opportunities to further those of her husband, now a resident at a New York City hospital. Contributions like hers, the state high court said, are precisely the kind of "joint effort" that framers of the state's 1980 divorce law had in mind in its provisions regarding the division of property...