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...least likely scenario is that Algeria's three main parties will sit idle and permit the Council of State to serve out the two remaining years of Bendjedid's aborted five-year term. There is also no guarantee that the army rank and file, more than half of whom are draftees, will support the military leadership. French Arabist Francois Burgat predicts that the army maneuver will be viewed as an attempt by a select group of officers to hold on to their privileges while Algeria sinks further into economic decay. "I would not be surprised to see factions...
Once you let the Wisians in, the neighborhood goes to pot. That might be one conclusion of a study of polling data on ethnic attitudes sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. About 1,500 Americans were asked to rank the social standing of 58 groups, from Italians to Chinese. "Wisians" were added as a fictitious entry to help gauge the responses...
While 61% of the respondents said they didn't know enough about Wisians to rank them, the rest expressed no qualms about giving them a relatively low rating: 4.12 on a 9-point social scale. "Many people ranked them low because they thought they were strange sounding," says Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey, adding that some of those questioned in the surveys may have assumed that Wisians hailed from a small Slavic nation in eastern Europe...
...Christmastime speech from the chairman of General Motors traditionally sounds like an address from a head of state. Small wonder: the company is so large (1990 revenues: nearly $127 billion) that if it were an independent nation, its economy would rank among the world's Top 20. By closed-circuit TV from GM headquarters in Detroit, this year's 45-minute broadcast reached 395,000 employees who stopped work and put down their tools in 130 factories across the U.S. But the message from chairman Robert Stempel was like no other in the 83-year history of the giant corporation...
...Carey victory may signal a new round of union militancy. During his campaign, the former delivery driver for United Parcel Service tapped growing rank-and-file resentment by railing against union concessions to employers. The union, which has seen the real wages of its members decline during the 1980s, has been alone among big unions in endorsing Republican Presidents. Carey says that policy will change...