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Calling themselves the shabab, an Arabic word loosely translated as the "guys," this embittered, sullen generation has taken to the streets of the occupied territories spoiling for trouble. "We are a pot full of steam, and pressure must explode," says Mahmoud Hamaid, 32, one of the shabab, whose 22-year-old brother Khalid was killed in the rioting. "You can't decide when this explosion will take place. It is always there...
...taken a severe toll on an economy that was already creaky. Living standards have fallen below their 1975 levels, with wages averaging less than $90 a month. Technologically, the country is so backward that many farmers still plant and harvest from horse-drawn carts, while many factories run on steam-powered . machinery from the last century. Even Lech Walesa, former leader of the now outlawed Solidarity, favors basic economic reforms. "The point is not to fight against the authorities," he said last week. "We must make efforts to achieve structural change...
Pentagon brass were outraged last year when the Dravo Corp. persuaded Congress to award it up to $10 million in extra payments on a disputed Navy contract. Although Dravo had agreed to build a steam plant at the Navy's Norfolk, Va., shipyard under a $102.9 million fixed-price contract, Congress ordered the service to pay for Dravo's cost overruns. Navy paymasters stalled until the 1987 fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Now, they discover, Dravo is back again. Just passed by the House Appropriations Committee, the 1988 Defense Department budget includes the same $10 million bailout. "Greed is still...
Dravo, which lost nearly $25 million on the project, is also suing seven subcontractors to recover these same cost overruns. The troubled firm says it will get out of the steam plant-building business altogether...
...course, always a pleasure to watch Martin's steam-gauge face register his rising internal pressures and to witness his exquisitely expressed blowoffs. But Candy offers even more insinuating delights. Covering lonely need with empty gab, insecurity with a not entirely trustworthy savvy, he is the most dangerous kind of pest, the type who worms rather than blusters his way into your life. The movie works the same way. For all its broadly farcical air, Planes, Trains and Automobiles finally seals its bond with the audience in the same way that Martin and Candy seal theirs, with...