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...denouement was not yet in sight. Almost three weeks after the revolutionary no-frills airline announced that it was looking to sell part or all of its operations to fend off bankruptcy, People found the buyer it needed. People's five-member board declared that United Airlines, the largest U.S. commercial carrier, would pay $146 million for Frontier Airlines, the Denver company that People picked up only last November. The same day, People's board rejected as "inadequate" an offer from Houston's Texas Air to buy the entire airline for $9 a share, a sum that some analysts estimated...
...plunge in oil prices stripped the government of a third of its projected annual foreign exchange of $24.5 billion. The economic turmoil has put unprecedented pressure on the political system. Thus Mexicans and foreigners alike were paying close attention to last week's elections in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where the conservative opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) enjoys a considerable following. At issue: whether the P.R.I. would maintain its stranglehold on power by means fair or foul...
...questionable election result was a blow to President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's vaunted campaign of "moral renovation." In 1983, De la Madrid's first year in power, Mexico enjoyed rare fraud-free elections. P.A.N. won mayorships in all of the seven largest cities of Chihuahua. P.R.I. officials privately vowed not to let such a calamity recur. Last year the ruling party resorted to flagrant irregularities while securing victory in elections in two northern states; in December it changed Chihuahua's laws so that the preparation and tallying of votes would be undertaken by P.R.I. agents. Such practices, however...
...entire community. If fancy facilities bring in more wealthy members, well and good. Their dues help support activities for the less privileged. Notes Celeste Wroblewski, spokeswoman for YMCA of the U.S.A., the Chicago headquarters of the more than 2,000 branch organization: "Collectively, Ys are the nation's largest provider of child care; 71% of the youngsters come from families with incomes of less than...
...largest black labor union is the National Union of Mineworkers, whose 150,000 members toil in the vital gold and diamond mines, which provide more than half the country's foreign-exchange earnings. An additional 50 smaller ; black labor groups represent everyone from waiters and metalworkers to supermarket cashiers. Individual unions are grouped into labor federations, the largest of which is COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, with 500,000 members...