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...military prowess disturbs many Latin American leaders, including some who had only recently argued that the danger of subversion from Havana was over. Venezuela, for example, led a fight within the Organization of American States to drop hemispheric sanctions against Havana. Now President Carlos Andrés Péres frets over reports of several hundred Cuban soldiers in nearby Guyana, a socialist state with which Venezuela for many years had a border dispute...
Television's Second Season got started before the disastrous First Season was fully under way, and it threatens to continue with premières into the Third Season, otherwise known as Reruns...
Earlier this month, Lazard Frères & Co., a Paris banking house associated with Lazard of Manhattan and of London, was excluded from any role in floating a $25 million bond issue for Air France. One of the participants, Intra Investment Co., which gets its money from Kuwait, Qatar and Lebanon, insisted that Lazard be shut out. Intra officials put pressure on the two lead banks in the deal, Credit Lyonnais and Banque Nationale de Paris, both of which are government owned. Lazard was also excluded from a $25 million issue for another client, the state-owned utility, Compagnie Nationale...
Sign of Resistance. Elsewhere, however, there were growing signs of resistance to the Arab muscle. In Manhattan, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith refused to capitulate to demands by the Kuwait International Investment Co. to drop the U.S. branch of Lazard Frères as a participant in two lending syndicates that will raise $50 million for the Mexican government and $25 million for Volvo. Merrill Lynch Chairman Donald Regan was not about to exclude Lazard or slight its chairman, 76-year-old Andre Meyer. The Kuwaitis then dropped out of the deals. Echoing the typical sentiments among investment bankers, Paul...
...major problem for Indian students on the "res," as Williams refers to her home, is learning English as a second language. Her own father didn't learn English until he was 14. On the reservation, she says, "there is no question that the language persists, the religion persists, the culture persists...