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Both papers believe that they are locked in a struggle for nothing less than survival. Moreover, says Free Press Executive Editor David Lawrence, 40, "the victor would be highly profitable." As a result, the News and the Free Press raid each other's staffs, scoff at or steal each other's stories, even copy each other's promotional gimmicks. When the Free Press started handing out copies to breakfasters at McDonald's, the News arranged a giveaway deal with Burger Chef...
...financial management, which was considered to be among the best in the world. But after Mexico had to be bailed out last August, bankers started worrying about Brazil. Referring to the problem of guilt by association, one U.S. Government official involved in overseeing the rescue remarked: "When the cops raid the red-light district, even the nice girls get taken away...
LESOTHO Predawn Raid South Africa's blanket invasion...
...dawn announcement in Pretoria, General Constand Viljoen, chief of the South African Defense Force, explained that the raid, unofficially named "Operation Blanket," had been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...
...Charging that the A.N.C. members killed were political refugees, not terrorists, Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles D. Molapo, labeled the attack "murder" and asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Given the landlocked country's economic dependence on South Africa, however, the raid was not likely to lead to a break in relations with Pretoria...