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...South African authorities. When an SAA rescue plane finally located the wreckage about 175 miles northeast of Mauritius late last week, there was no sign that any of the 140 passengers and 19 crew members had survived. Should none be found, the crash would be the worst ever for state-run...
Pozderac's resignation was swiftly followed by that of Metod Rotar, president of the Ljubljanska Banka, a state-run bank that had bought large quantities of Agrokomerc's promissory notes. Yugoslav officials hinted that still more resignations, and possibly more arrests, were to come. Despite some rumors to the contrary, there was no evidence that the government, which is run by Prime Minister Branko Mikulic, 59, was in danger of falling. But Yugoslav economists estimate that in 1986 alone thousands of enterprises besides Agrokomerc issued unbacked promissory notes and other flimsy financial instruments amounting to more than $9 billion...
...Economist Thomas Naylor, "is not ideology but rather the lack of familiarity with market mechanisms." That shortcoming was illustrated recently by the baffled reaction of a shopkeeper in a state-owned Moscow clothing store when asked her views on the new private companies. Suppose someone wanted to produce shoes privately, she said. "Where would they get the leather or the rubber?" Such materials have always been distributed to state-run enterprises by Gossnab, the government's main supply agency. There is not yet a procedure under which a private shoemaker can purchase leather from a private tanner. Nor are there...
...protesters burned five municipal buses and seized a garbage truck as a makeshift barricade. In Taejon a crowd of 6,000 marchers fire-bombed two police stations. On Wednesday night alone, crowds laid siege to 17 police outposts, two Democratic Justice Party district offices, and two buildings of the state-run Korean Broadcasting System...
...full rhetorical flood last week when he gave the editor of the French Communist Party daily L'Humanite a seven-hour interview that did not end until 4:30 a.m. Castro defended his recent closing of free farmers' markets, calling their operators "thieves" who were hurting the business of state-run cooperatives. He ridiculed the welcome given to Cuban dissidents in France and other Western countries by suggesting they were less eager to receive ordinary immigrants. "If the U.S. wants to welcome 10,000, 50,000, 100,000 people, we will not oppose it." And he labeled "ridiculous" a recent...