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...months there had been rumors of an impending leadership shuffle in Warsaw. But after the shake-up was announced last week, power remained exactly where it had begun: in the grip of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Polish leader stepped down as Premier and then went before parliament to name as his successor Deputy Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner. Earlier, Jaruzelski had himself elected head of the Council of State, Poland's collective presidency. He will continue in his all-powerful role as Communist Party chief...
...Devices, complained to the Government in September that their Japanese rivals are selling certain types of chips in the U.S. at artificially low prices. Last week the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that the Commerce Department should open a probe of the matter. The U.S. manufacturers want a fair shake in the Japanese market as well. The Semiconductor Industry Association formally complained to the U.S. Trade Representative last June that Japan was blocking access to its markets. Japanese companies deny both claims...
...sounding alarms. They point out that a large part of the stock-market gain has been caused by the boom in mergers and leveraged buyouts. The massive stock purchases involved in those deals push up prices in general, but the buying is financed by huge loans that could shake the banking system if they go sour. Says Robert Salomon, director of stock research at the Salomon Bros, investment firm: "All this takeover activity is fine and dandy, but let's not forget that we are swapping equity for massive amounts of debt. Some of these highly leveraged companies could find...
...others climb atop their mounts to lasso the calves from among the dozen skittish critters in the tight pen. One crazy cow, a 1,500-lb. mother with twisting horns sharpened for the gore, tries twice to leap the fence but fails, landing with a thud hard enough to shake your ancestors...
...snowy, rugged Andean peak came from a buildup of molten rock and trapped gases that was ultimately caused by the movement of two of the earth's huge tectonic plates (see following story). Similar forces were responsible for the Mexico City earthquake as well as the tremors that perennially shake California. But the eruption also bore an eerie similarity to the 1980 detonation of Washington State's Mount St. Helens, which left an estimated 65 people dead and missing. The initial Nevado del Ruiz blast sent steam and millions of tons of ash into the Andean air, but the debris...