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...detonating force was economics. Each of these African countries overspent badly in the 1970s, suffered plunging commodity prices in the 1980s, and today finds itself flat broke. Desperate for hard currency, each has been forced into structural-readjustment programs, which entail strict and painful austerity measures, in order to obtain loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund...
...Reason: uncertain fees. Because of a sweeping U.S. Government freeze on the general's assets, estimated at $20 million to $60 million, his lawyers maintained they could not be paid. Said defense attorney Steven Kollin: "I've been able to do very little because I need to travel and obtain a full-time staff of investigators. We've got warehouses of documents in Panama, but no one has been able to go down there and look at them." The prosecution promptly labeled the pleas of poverty "inaccurate and misleading." To try to break the impasse, U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler...
...sensibly, been luring seasoned executives out of retirement. Further, as required by law, the agency has been farming out most of the task to the private sector, where a growing army of appraisers, attorneys, property managers and real estate agents is massing to evaluate, manage and obtain fair value for RTC assets. These folks will, collectively, reap billions in fees from the RTC. But it may not be unreasonable to think that most of them will do a conscientious job for the taxpayer in return...
Even so, IRCA supporters insist that the law has helped solve the problem. Since 1987, IRCA has allowed 3 million undocumented aliens to obtain legal status. During that time, the number of aliens captured annually fell by half, from a peak of 1.8 million in 1986. Although supporters applaud this as proof that would-be illegals are staying home, a more plausible explanation is that the legalization program helped to augment -- not reduce -- the illicit flow. Even more telling, the influx is rising once again. Since December, the INS' monthly apprehension figures are averaging 50% higher than the year before...
...before Silber can disregard Murphy's candidacy--let alone gain a place on the ballot for September's primary--he must obtain support from 15 percent of the delegates at next month's state Democratic convention...