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...months ago, Mugabe's government sent an armed force led by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland, the Ndebele homeland in the southwestern part of the country, to crush a rising tide of resistance and lawlessness. The soldiers, most of whom are Shona tribesmen, killed hundreds of Ndebele civilians. Two weeks ago, the Fifth Brigade moved into the suburbs of Bulawayo, the main city in Matabeleland, and conducted house-to-house searches for dissidents. The soldiers even invaded Nkomo's home, where they killed an employee and ransacked the property. That night Nkomo, who had gone...
...several years, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has banned Southwestern-a Nashville-based publishing and book-selling company-from recruiting new soles representatives on Harvard's campus. Southwestern employs more than 5000 college and graduate students to work selling Bibles and encyclopedias for 13 weeks each summer...
...step forward, one step back. It was that kind of week for James Watt, President Reagan's controversial Secretary of the Interior. First, his department announced plans to lift wilderness protection from more than 805,000 federally owned acres in ten Western and Southwestern states, possibly opening the land to various forms of development. Then, in a move that some conservationists dismissed as more symbol than substance, he laid to rest his longstanding intention of issuing oil and gas leases in existing wilderness areas...
Some of the smaller regional U.S. banks that have ventured into the foreign market are also vulnerable, particularly those in Southwestern states that have extensive dealings across the border. The Valley National Bank of Arizona, for example, has Mexican loans totaling 60% of its equity; at Texas Commerce Bank in Houston the figure...
...hard-charging Mexican chains have carefully catered to regional tastes as they have grown. W.R. Grace's El Torito goes so far as to grind its beef in Southwestern cities like Houston and Dallas and to shred it in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where diners prefer it that way. Says Anwar Soliman, executive vice president for Grace's restaurant group: "You have to look at all these subtleties. It's critical in some places, particularly the Midwest." Soliman predicts that Mexican restaurants will double their business by 1985. Many others are bullish as well...