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...OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING SPREE THAT left two dead and three wounded outside the agency's entrance gate two weeks ago doubt that the still unidentified killer was a present or former CIA employee. For one thing, the attacker did not attempt to go inside. In most cases, embittered ex-employees who go on shooting sprees enter the workplace to attack their former colleagues. And at CIA headquarters, anyone can carry a gun into the complex. Just as at other government agencies, there are no metal detectors at the entrances...
...million people -- is no place to live. The city's social fabric has been fraying for years, but in September 1991 it started to unravel completely. The crisis began when a group of elite government troops, angry because they had not been paid for months, went on a looting spree that was quickly joined by civilians. During the next few days, nearly $1 billion worth of property, from clothes to computers, was pillaged. After the rampage, foreign businessmen -- and foreign money -- fled the city. The economy collapsed. Since the government now has almost no money to buy supplies and spare...
...markets to explore in Asia, where they are better positioned for expansion than their Western competitors. Japanese carmakers are already dueling in Thailand, one of the fastest-growing Asian markets, and are eagerly awaiting a rise in living standards in other countries that should launch a major auto-buying spree. Thailand's market may be only a fraction of the size of the U.S.'s, but it offers a taste of things to come in some Southeast and West Asian countries -- and someday China and India. Yasuhara Kondo's showroom may not enjoy another boom, but Toyota and its large...
...Johnson Redbook Service's Retail Indicators recorded a leap of 10.4% in department-, discount- and chain-store sales over last year. The source of the spree became clearer with the release of the New York-based Conference Board's consumer confidence index for December. It showed nearly a 13-point increase, following an 11-point hop the month before. Says Redbook analyst Steve Marotta: "Consumers went from the ostentatious '80s, making sure that they had somebody's name on their pocketbook, to the '90s, when they pulled in the reins. Now what we are seeing is the result of pent...
...shortly before U.S. Marines landed at Mogadishu. In the port city of Kismayu, 250 miles southwest of the capital, up to 200 leading members of the Harti clan, including religious leaders, businessmen and doctors, were reportedly dragged from their homes and shot during several nights of terror. The killing spree was said to have been ordered by Kismayu's de facto boss, the warlord Colonel Omar Jess, who belongs to the rival Ogadeni clan and is an ally of Aidid's. According to an American diplomat, Jess may have ordered the massacre to consolidate his control over the city before...