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Jackson's agreements with corporations are relatively recent, and their long-term impact is impossible to predict. Since 1981, PUSH has signed contracts with five firms: Coca-Cola, Seven-Up, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King and Southland Corp., which owns 7-Eleven minimarkets and Chief auto-parts stores. Jackson's goal in these agreements, which are not legally binding, is to get a dollar's worth of economic benefits for blacks in return for every dollar blacks spend on the companies' products, as determined through market research...
...Brussels headquarters last Saturday to mark the 38th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. But many of their banners also bore slogans that reflected a more immediate concern: FOR A EUROPE FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. NO PERSHING IIS. NO CRUISE MISSILES. The protest was a harbinger of what Europeans predict will be a "hot autumn" in which millions of people will take to the streets to protest the imminent deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe...
Several conference participants and organizers were unwilling yesterday to predict how successful they might be in actually countering the apparent drop in voter interest...
...president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, strongly opposes following Liggett into generics. He and many other cigarette officials believe that the no-names are just a recession phenomenon. Says Johnston: "In my judgment, you've got to have the link between the consumer and an identifiable brand name. I predict that the success of generics will be short-lived." Liggett officials, on the other hand, believe that smokers will stick with their new, lower-cost smokes in better times. Says Dey: "There is still brand loyalty, but price has become a factor...
...Carli, 69, who headed the powerful Bank of Italy for 16 years. His party will most likely command close to its traditional 38% of the vote. The Communists, under Enrico Berlinguer, have steadily been losing ground since reaching their high of 34.4% of the vote in 1976. Some polls predict 27% or 28% in next week's count. Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, who forced the elections by bailing out of the last coalition government, had hoped to engineer major Socialist gains (perhaps 15% of the vote, compared with 9.8% in 1979), but the tactic backfired. Party strategists...