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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick rundown of the situation lends itself to pessimism. Brazil has a foreign debt of about $70 billion and an inflation rate approaching 100 percent. Colombia and Costa Rica are barely surviving the sharp drop in world coffee prices, their principal export. And Honduras has the distinction of being the second poorest Latin American nation after Haiti...
...acre site of the old Victoria Barracks, located on the very edge of Hong Kong's commercial district, is prime real estate. Although its buildings are rundown and were abandoned by the British army in 1979, the parcel should have been worth about $250 million on the basis of similar recent real estate sales. But when the Hong Kong government offered it for sale this month, the bids fell "unacceptably" short, and the sale was postponed, victim to uncertainty over the future of the crown colony...
...York City, some 300 police and FBI agents searched unsuccessfully for Fugitives James Lewis, 36, and his wife LeAnn, 35, after it was reported that they had lived in a rundown Manhattan hotel from mid-September until Oct. 16. The two, also known as Robert and Nancy Richardson and by more than a dozen other aliases, are being sought by federal authorities for an attempt to extort $1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the makers of Tylenol, with a blackmail note saying that the payoff could "stop the killing." Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner has called Lewis "a prime...
...every weather office. Using AFOS, a meteorologist summons up on a video screen the weather service's national data, presses a button that superimposes more detailed readings from nearby observation posts and presses another key that zooms in on his state or county for an up-to-date rundown of the local weather. Some weathermen remain skeptical, as one Midwestern forecaster puts it, as to "whether AFOS computers will actually improve forecasts or give bad forecasts more frequently." But NWS Director Richard Hallgren has no such doubts. "The larger the computer, the better the forecast," he says...
...cheaper gasoline at the pump, prices have suddenly started to creep up again. The reason: a developing squeeze on worldwide petroleum stockpiles and supplies. Production cuts by Saudi Arabia, the largest single oil producer in the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, have combined with a continuing rundown of excess inventories by oil companies to start wiping out the price-depressing effects of last winter's oil glut. Says Claude Messinger of Ashland Oil, who was the chairman of a gathering last week in New York of the American Petroleum Institute: "In my judgment, gasoline prices have bottomed...