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...class travel and taxis home. Cold Turkey When a country's going through a financial crisis, who knows which sectors will be the worst hit? In Turkey, it's the shoe-making industry, where 300,000 workers - 75% of the sector's workforce - have lost their jobs since the lira was devalued in late February. Entangled Wires E.U. Ministers took a mara-thon 10 hours of intense debate to try to agree how to regulate telecoms firms, before deciding to leave regulatory power in the hands of national authorities...
...tagline: "They forgot one thing?there was a son." Elections are looming elsewhere?and the world's film archives are filled with potential spoof material. JAPAN Throw Mori from the Train Nobody likes him?but he's damned hard to get rid of. ITALY For a Few Billion Lira More In this spaghetti western, Berlusconi goes toe-to-toe with Rutelli. Where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? FIJI The Indians in the Cupboard That's where George Speight and friends want them?but the voters may disagree. SINGAPORE The Truman Show II: Another Day in Paradise The population...
...Turkey lacks the political will to reform its economy-undermines the country's credibility at a time when it is trying to join the European Union. And as the euro itself wobbled, the beads of sweat on the faces of bankers in Frankfurt and London as they watched the lira's plunge was proof positive that Turkey, whatever the pace of its integration into E.U. institutions, is already in Europe...
...unity government with a few members of its own choosing. For now, though, the generals have urged Ecevit-who was visiting Macedonia while Sezer was in Egypt-not to resign and add to the air of instability. For its part, the U.S. applauded Ankara's decision to float the lira, saying its nato ally-an important bulwark in a volatile region-had been achieving important macroeconomic and structural goals and would continue...