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EEPC Director Irwin M. Stelzer said that while the DOE had been the center's largest donor over the past six years, giving between $100,000 and $200,000 a year, it cut off all support after the center issued a report last September that challenged an earlier DOE study of energy security issues...
...sound of collapsing banks has echoed through the depressed Texas oil fields for two years now, but the crash heard last week was the loudest of all. Federal regulators disclosed that they would pledge $4 billion to rescue Dallas-based First RepublicBank (assets: $32.5 billion), the state's largest banking firm. The initial federal commitment is second in size only to the $4.5 billion bailout of Chicago's Continental Illinois...
...Japanese call it the age soba, or rising market, ascent has been dizzying: the 225-stock Nikkei index -- Japan's equivalent Dow Jones industrial average -- has surged 400% in value since beginning its bullish burst. The $3.5 trillion now invested in the Tokyo market makes it world's largest. Even the devastation wrought by last October's global stock only temporarily dampened the spirits of Tokyo traders. Although the Dow is now 12% lower than it was before the crash, the Nikkei has risen 6% above pre- crash level, to new highs...
...current military strength of the Khmer Rouge, largest of the three guerrilla groups (the others are Sihanouk's Nationalist Army and former Premier Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front), is in dispute. Soviet and Vietnamese military advisers insist that the Kampuchean armed forces can contain the threat, but Western analysts have their doubts. Kampuchea's 30,000-man regular army and the 100,000 irregulars assigned to defend their country are largely untested. Many Kampucheans fear that once the Vietnamese draw down their forces, the Khmer Rouge may succeed in grabbing power once more...
...senior American official granted that privilege since World War II -- he will find the military in the midst of one of those profound shake-ups that have plagued the Red Army since Leon Trotsky helped build it in 1918. Under Mikhail Gorbachev's program of perestroika, the world's largest military machine faces unprecedented political pressure to slim down, open up and rethink its basic strategy. At the same time, the armed forces are plunging into the electronic age in a frantic drive to narrow the West's lead in high-tech weaponry. Taken together, the changes could revolutionize every...