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...even before the unraveling, and the storm that followed, was there anything wrong with the original scenario? Just a few months ago, after all, did not Kohl and President Mitterrand of France hold a moving reconciliation at the World War I battlefield at Verdun? When Kohl raised with Reagan the idea of a cemetery visit, he cited the Verdun ceremony as the model...
...world financiers ever wanted to stay awake nights worrying in the past two years, they could always lie abed wondering about a sudden crash of the dollar that might lead to international economic chaos. That grim scenario came a bit closer to reality last week as the U.S. currency skidded to its lowest level in a year. From a peak reached in late February, the value of the dollar has declined an average of 14% against major currencies and 24% against the British pound...
...armageddon-style plot, geologists are alerted to the growing danger. They reel off projections of the worst-case scenario: a massive storm of volcanic ash covering the entirety of the United States and killing millions of individuals by collapsing roofs, immobilizing cities, and crashing airliners...
This is not necessarily as bleak a scenario, however, as the surface indicates...
...United States and Canada began round-robin play Saturday, but the two nations will not meet until the finals, if they both qualify. That very same scenario, however, has unfolded in each of the last eight championships, with the Canadians prevailing on all of those occasions...