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...Southern Pacific railways was a done deal. Well, almost done. After pondering the matter for 2 1/2 years, the Interstate Commerce Commission unexpectedly rejected the merger last week, declaring that it would be anti-competitive. Had the deal been approved, Santa Fe Southern would have become the third largest railroad in track miles (25,000), behind Burlington Northern...
This clash over what must come first may harden. The United Democratic Front, the largest apartheid coalition, which claims more than 600 organizations with 2 million members, now calls for nothing less than the surrender of the South African government. In a memorandum to European Community governments on the eve of British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit last week, the U.D.F. declared that "there is no possibility of peace and the construction of a democratic government while the Nationalist Government remains in power...
There are no skyscrapers or neon signs. The largest building around is the Strand Hotel, left over from colonial days, where you can get a lobster dinner for four bucks. But the city is really dominated by the Shwedagon Pagoda, a huge golden dome three kilometers above the city, surrounded on eight sides by smaller pagodas in resplendent red and silver. Both the men and women on the streets wear the traditional longgyi, a tube-shaped piece of cloth knotted at the waist and falling to the ankles. Even children, but especially old women, smoke sold everywhere on the sidewalks...
Sheik Yamani is Saudi Arabia's representative to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a cartel of oil-rich nations currently experiencing severe problems in the glutted market. The Saudis, largely viewed as the leader of OPEC, are the largest petroleum producers in the world...
...firm of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods: "The situation is deteriorating, and there is no end in sight to the crisis. Recovery is three to five years away." Indeed, the only gushers in Texas are spouting red ink. Last week Dallas-based InterFirst (assets: $19.2 billion), the state's third- largest banking company, posted a second-quarter loss of $281.1 million...