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...midweek, Mexico got a measure of relief when the International Monetary Fund approved a $7.8 billion loan, the largest it has ever made, to help stabilize the peso. Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia also jointly opened a $1 billion credit line for Mexico. But the infusions were not large enough to solve Mexico's most serious challenge: finding sufficient funds to pay off or refinance $26 billion in mostly foreign-owned short-term bonds maturing during 1995. The government got a hint of the difficulties ahead last week when it put at auction $400 million in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds...
...more relentless, desperate quality to the pursuit of intoxication. The drinkers also seem more blase than ever about the consequences. "Look, this is nothing," 20-year-old Cecily, a junior at the University of New Hampshire, tells a reporter as she downs her fourth beer at a midweek party. "We did the same thing last night and turned out for exams. We can handle...
...languish in disrepair. Garbage is piled high around the capital, and the municipal dump is an unsightly waterfront horror that breeds disease. Roads are barely navigable; in some places, the potholes have grown so large and deep that they are known in Haitian Creole as tonmbo, or tombs. At midweek, gasoline had still not made it to the nation's pumps, and the stockpiled supplies of street dealers were dwindling. It was a characteristically Haitian irony that only when the embargo was over did the gas shortage begin...
...afraid I was going to have to occupy my currently sports-deficient midweek with watching the wire to see who was selected as the Red Sox's next pitching coach...
Faced with something that approached a regular kaffeeklatsch linking the White House with agencies looking into Whitewater, an embarrassed Clinton insisted at midweek that "no one has actually done anything wrong," but nonetheless added, "I think it would be better if the meetings and conversations hadn't occurred." The President ordered McLarty to issue a rule to senior Administration officials about Whitewater chats with federal regulators: Don't have them or, before you do, clear them with...