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...team to the Languedoc to find a vineyard where the winemaker could produce its own high-quality vintage. The company settled on 50 hectares of scrub-covered hillside above Aniane, where pioneering local growers at the Mas de Daumas Gassac and the Domaine de la Grange des Pères had already shown the potential of vines planted in low-yield hillside plots rather than fertile valley bottoms...
...integrated into the community," concedes its representive in France, David Pearson. And Aniane's voters may have let the future slip through their fingers. "Fifty percent of the growers who sell to the coop are going to disappear," says Laurent Vaillé, owner of La Grange des Pères. "Mondavi was their last chance, the only thing that was going to help the coop stay alive. Mondavi would have shone a spotlight on Languedoc throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. There's no one else in the region who could do that." By opting for splendid isolation, Aniane may have...
...multinationals also have to contend with competition from generic drug makers. The Indian company Cipla plans to sell its versions of a triple-drug anti-AIDS cocktail to Médecins sans Frontières for $600 a year per patient - $200 cheaper than the least expensive brand-name cocktail. "We are offering the drugs at a humanitarian price," says Cipla chairman Yusuf K. Hamied. GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers have threatened to sue Cipla; they fear that a flood of cheap imitations in Africa could create a global black market for AIDS drugs that could undercut prices in the developed...
...SOMALIA Kidnapped A convoy of foreign aid workers was caught up in factional fighting in northern Mogadishu as they left the compound of the humanitarian agency Médecins sans Frontières. Supporters of warlord Muse Sudi Yalahow captured nine, along with two local workers, and held them hostage. Fighting then broke out between factions in Muse Sudi's group. U.N. negotiators obtained the release of seven foreign workers and two Somalis...
...live on the group's two reservations: a quarter-acre lot in the town of Trumbull and 106 acres in Colchester. There a metal gate blocks the gravel drive, and a NO TRESPASSING sign bars the curious from visiting the two mobile homes inside. A mailbox reads GOLDEN HILL RES...