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...tacitly condoned the 1975 invasion and succeeding administrations have pumped Indonesia with military aid in the years since. But thus far in the current crisis, the Clinton administration has done a good job prodding Indonesia along the road to peace in East Timor. Pressure from the U.S., Indonesia's second-largest trading partner after Japan, helped convince Habibie to agree to a referendum in the first place and to permit peacekeepers. It may again prove invaluable as the specifics of the UN mission are worked...
...Pays" was never more true than Wednesday, when the nation's second-largest life insurer agreed to pay a megamillion-dollar settlement of lawsuits accusing the company of deceptive sales practices. Pending a federal judge's approval, Metropolitan Life says it will distribute $1.7 billion to some 7 million people who bought insurance and annuities between 1982 and 1997. This agreement will take care of a collection of class-action suits brought by the feds and private citizens, and is the latest in a long line of settlements by large insurers over questionable sales tactics. Example: "churning," in which...
...wrestling from Japan, I bet, or The Larry Sanders Show reruns--while I was stuck with $50-a-month basic cable plus HBO and no pay-per-view. Last week, I'm delighted to say, I found an excuse to get my own direct-broadcast satellite TV. EchoStar, the second-largest DBS provider in the U.S., has just rolled out a promising new product called the DISHPlayer, a satellite receiver with an integrated WebTV that lets you surf the Net, send e-mail, play video games and watch more TV shows than there are hours in the day. The system...
...left the Economic Daily because of what he called terrible censorship, and moved to Hong Kong's Apple Daily, the second-largest daily in this Chinese territory...
With that in mind, bargain hunters on Tuesday sent the Dow rebounding 288 points, in the second-largest single-day point gain in history. President Clinton, for whom rising stocks have covered a multitude of sins these past six years, tracked the Dow anxiously as he traveled to beleaguered Moscow. During a dinner with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Clinton stopped economic adviser Gene Sperling in the receiving line to tell him, quietly but with palpable relief, that "the market's up" and flashed a thumbs-up sign...