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Fallon McElligott issued apologies to all concerned, but the gesture was too late. One of its biggest accounts, the U S WEST Bell telephone company, now says it will not renew its contract with the agency, valued as high as $10 million annually. The reason: the BITCH, BITCH, BITCH affair. Said a satisfied Schleuning: "This is Fallon McElligott's worst possible nightmare come true. I couldn't have set this one up if I had tried...
...accept it in mid-December, he received the unsettling news that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had announced plans for a large military buildup. Arias denounced the move as a violation of the Guatemala accord. At about the same time, U.S. congressional leaders approved a compromise measure to renew nonmilitary aid to the contras through February. The contras, meanwhile, launched what they called their biggest offensive of the war. All in all, Arias' prizewinning peace plan was starting to look shaky...
...uncharacteristically conservative strategy designed to build an advantage slowly. The tactic seemed to wear down Karpov, who was short of time. When play resumed on Saturday after an adjournment, the champion methodically advanced his queen into the challenger's territory. It took just 24 moves for Kasparov to renew his hold on the title...
Gabon's oil minister, Etienne Guy Tchioba, said the cartel leaders might have to rework a tentative accord, reached Saturday, to retain the $18-a-barrel oil price and renew OPEC's existing set of national oil production quotas...
...negotiators have sat down to work out a new arrangement for U.S. bases, and six times they have failed. So when the seventh round of talks began last week, further stalemate seemed all but certain. Indeed, at the end of the session, Spanish officials announced they would not "automatically renew" the current military treaty. That means a new pact will have to be worked out by next May or the U.S. will be forced to abandon installations it has occupied since...