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...JANUARY 15, Michael Manley, socialist Prime Minister of Jamaica, went to Washington to find out whether his government would stand or fall. He went not to Congress, nor to the White House, but to 700 19th Street, N.W., the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Manley came to plead for a desperately needed loan for his country, and the IMF, "lender of last resort" to many Third World countries, was his last hope...
...loan sharks. Their staggering losses in silver the past couple of months have forced them to go, stetson in hand, to bankers in the U.S. and abroad. The weekend after Silver Thursday, they showed up uninvited at the Reserve City Bankers Association convention in Boca Raton, Fla., to plead for help in meeting their debts. The brothers supposedly told leading bankers that they probably owed about $1.7 billion. Over cups of coffee and cold cheese sandwiches, the moneymen debated long into the night whether to give the Hunts a loan. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker made an appearance wearing...
...explained. He urged the U.S. instead to "channel the aid to feed thousands of our people." The archbishop also led a campaign to locate the missing victims of arrests, and every Sunday read a roll call of the week's dead. Salvadorans came from all over to plead for help, clutching photographs of relatives who had disappeared...
...land use ordinances applied to the University, Cambridge officials might have prevented the eviction of tenants from 7 Sumner Rd.; they might have forced Harvard to listen more seriously to its neighbors during the construction of the Quad Athletic Complex; and they might be able to do more than plead for responsible development of the three-acre parcel of open land in the Square recently purchased by the University...
Blacks protested that authorities were moving too hastily against Jones, the first black superintendent in Dade County his tory, and Barnes, who is also black. But last week both were suspended from their jobs without pay and indicted for second-degree grand theft. They plan to plead not guilty. If convicted, they face maximum penalties of five years in prison and $10,000 fines. Jones, who had hitherto received high marks from the school board, and Barnes, an educator for twelve years, may also face the prospect of careers go ing down the drain...