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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scale of the Kohlberg Kravis buyouts is pushing the reticent company into the spotlight and raising skepticism about the ambitious reach of its deals. In April the firm wrapped up the largest LBO in history, the $6.2 billion purchase of Beatrice, the food and consumer-products conglomerate...
...NMFS acknowledges that the fleet this year is already approaching its limit. "If the killing continues at the present rate," says Charles Fullerton, director of the agency's Southwest region, "the fleet will reach that (number) in September." Pressured by the environmentalists on one side and the tuna fishers on the other, the agency is still debating its next step...
...free party on the banks of the Charles on Sept. 3. Here, you can watch a laser show where whales are flashed on a water screen; fire-eaters, jugglers and a huge marionette of John Harvard will wander among the crowds; and a 600-foot inflatable silver arch will reach across the Charles River over a barge full of Russian singers from Yale. Oh, and of course, the 23-piece women's samba band...
...launching their dramatic operation, the Reagan Administration and the Bolivian government tackled a complex problem that seems to be beyond the reach of standard diplomatic or administrative efforts. Dissatisfied with earlier Bolivian attempts to eradicate coca fields, the U.S. State Department in June decided to cut Bolivia's $14.4 million economic support in half. Bolivian officials were hoping last week's raid would prevent any similar slashes in aid next year...
...contradictions in the U.S. stance were evident last week during a state visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo. Did the Reagan Administration press Pakistan to stop producing the more than 100 tons of opium that will reach the U.S. this year as heroin? Not very hard, since the Administration was arranging to give Pakistan a six-year, $4 billion military and economic aid package with no drug-strings attached. President Reagan had other serious matters to discuss with Junejo: Pakistan's reputed effort to produce nuclear weapons (which Junejo denied) and Pakistan's support for mujahedin rebels...