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...executives contend that heavy loan demands from the merger candidates help keep the U.S. money supply tight and make it more difficult for a small business to finance new machinery or for a family to borrow money for a new house or automobile. Says W. Martin Dillon, chairman of Northwestern Steel and Wire Co: "The merger trend and the competition for capital it entails are probably helping to keep interest rates...
...sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details of the Countess of Cardigan's Recollections (scandalous...
...Mujahedin who are believed to have masterminded the escape of former President Abolhassan Banisadr, whom they supported, after he had been deposed by the government. Banisadr is now thought to be hiding in the Kurdish region in northwestern Iran...
...airline, quit working for four hours. Reason: they claimed the right to name the airline's new director. (At week's end the LOT employees accepted the government's appointee as "president" but insisted that their candidate actually run the airline.) Finally, transport workers in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz staged a two-hour warning strike to force the ouster of a local transport chief. Accused of corruption, the official finally resigned...
Iran's Kurdish minority, which has been relatively quiescent in the past few months, reacted to Banisadr's ouster by staging riots in the city of Mahabad in northwestern Iran. Many of the nation's 4 million Kurds, who have been fighting for autonomy for generations, seem to have joined forces with other opposition groups who are heeding Banisadr's recent admonition to the Iranian people...