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...behalf, why did South African officials seize their passports soon after they had returned from Paris? And if Van Zyl is as successful a businessman as he is supposed to be, why are several of his companies in the process of liquidation, and why does he have a recent record of passing a bad check and not paying his bills...
...Recent efforts to reorganize foreign aid have fared much BY GEOFFREY MOSS worse than attempts to increase appropriations for it. Senator Hubert Humphrey's last legislative initiative was the International Development Cooperation Act, which would have assembled all foreign aid programs, for the first time, under one roof and a single planning command. The bill died last year as a result of congressional inaction that was abetted by both of the major Administration departments that would have lost power. The State Department would have forfeited control of bilateral pro grams handled by AID, and the Treasury Department would have...
Still, the picture is wonderfully fair to moviegoers, a superbly suspenseful, expertly crafted, entirely riveting entertainment. It is hard to recall a movie of recent years as absorbing, or as much fun, as The China Syndrome. That rather obscure title, by the way, refers to the theoretical destination of a plant's super-hot uranium core if it somehow lost its liquid coolant and burned through the floor, into the earth and onward to China...
...country. Last year alone Wendy's opened 502 units, bringing the total to 1,400. One result: the company's earnings surged 56%, to $23.2 million, on sales of $783 million. Even so, analysts say, average sales advances in Wendy's shops have slowed in recent months, and they expect that deceleration to continue. Still, Wendy's intends to stick with its limited line of hamburgers and chili, though some industry experts believe that this will make the company especially vulnerable to the rise in beef prices. Whatever strategy the chains choose, they are already...
...well as you like the previous book. Or you might read it because you read the sports pages and rooted for the Wehrmacht in the latest Super Bowl, in which case you won't like it all. Or you might read it because it is one of the few recent novels that deal with a peculiar and troubling section of America, and then if you don't still believe Oswald was the Lone Gunman, you'll be peculiarly troubled...