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Critics complain that federal regulators, panicked over the parlous state of the thrift industry, have been all too willing to approve WSGP purchases at giveaway prices. Perhaps in response to that outcry, the regulators have balked at two recent WSGP takeover bids, in San Mateo and Irvine, Calif. In turn, Simon & Co. have altered their business strategy: Marina del Rey-based Western Federal is a healthy and profitable S and L with about $2 billion in ! assets. The Western Federal deal must still be approved by federal regulators...
Maybe not, but the noise level at debt-negotiating sessions is unlikely to decrease, since the conditions of many Third World countries is, if anything, more parlous. Most debtors have fallen victim to a general sluggishness in the world economy, which has reduced their export income and thus their ability to pay. "Lack of economic growth in the U.S. and abroad is the real time bomb," says John Heimann, vice chairman of Merrill Lynch's Capital Markets Group...
...than enough news in south Florida to occupy any newspaper: a restive black community, an assertively bilingual Cuban population, an infestation of gun-wielding drug dealers, banks that accept large deposits in cash, a police department that seems prone to provoking charges of brutality. The Miami Herald covers its parlous territory as thoroughly and fearlessly as any other city daily, whether in exposing racial discrimination in housing or in probing terrorist acts by anti-Castro Cuban exiles. But it does more. Its reportage of Latin America, aided by bureaus in Rio de Janeiro, San Salvador and, soon, Managua, is among...
...Baptista Figueiredo. Once again, progress toward full democracy was liable to be discussed: Figueiredo will step down from the country's most important remaining nonelective political office in March 1985, probably in favor of a civilian. The two men are also expected to discuss the parlous state of Brazil's economy. With the largest foreign debt in the Third World (estimated at $93 billion), inflation galloping at an estimated annual rate of 215%, and a third consecutive year of negative economic growth in 1983, Brazil (pop. about 131 million) is in acute social pain. Foreign bankers granted...
...willingness of Africa's leaders to confront their parlous economic circumstances has eroded the appeal of Soviet Marxism. Except in Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique, Moscow's attempts to play on the anticolonialist sentiments of Africans have foundered. For one thing, Africans have discovered that education, customs and trade still tie them more closely to Western Europe. They have also observed that experiments in Marxist socialism have largely been unsuccessful. One of the best examples is resource-rich Ghana, where the four-year-old government of Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 36, now faces an economy teetering on the brink...