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...seven leaders is the rising potential for global recession along with a painful end to five years of sustained economic growth. To help prolong that expansion, the leaders must try to make stronger commitment to resist the lure of protectionism, which is beginning to cast a dangerous pall over world trade. Another summit priority will be taking further steps to ease the international debt crisis, which is simmering once again with the decision by Citicorp and other big U.S. banks to set aside billions of dollars for anticipated Third World loan losses...
...clashes sent shock waves throughout the South Pacific and cast a pall over the country's second biggest industry, tourism. No one was certain all week who was actually running the troubled paradise. The violence and unrest were a trauma for a country whose racial harmony had led Pope John Paul II last year to call Fiji a "symbol of hope for the world." Said Agricultural Minister Jo Nacola: "We haven't ever had scenes like that before in the history of our country...
...real biggie." Soviet penetration of embassy communications has been so extensive, officials fear, that U.S. negotiating positions were compromised before the Reykjavik summit last October. The security damage has also seriously hampered preparations for Secretary of State George Shultz's trip to Moscow April 13 -- and could cast a pall over prospects for a summit this year...
Considering the fickleness of the American palate and the competition for food dollars, it is no wonder that 1986 saw so many trendy flashes in the pan, as well as on the plate. California and Southwest cuisines, so much in vogue last January, have already begun to pall. As the year ended, lip service was being paid to such buzz words as country, peasant, cuisine bourgeoise and even meat and potatoes. Meanwhile, freshness took on new meaning as lazy cooks opted for unfrozen, simmer-in-bag prepared dishes. And with rabbit the In meat of the year, the most worried...
Although Reagan said "a pall has been cast" over U.S.-Soviet relations by the Nicholas S. Daniloff '56 affair, he did not suggest the case would stand in the way of progress toward reducing both medium and long-range nuclear weapons...