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...estimated foreign debt: $20 billion), where there have been two military coups in the past two years, the petrocrisis could not have come at a worse time. The second coup, in August, led to the accession as President of Major General Ibrahim B. Babangida, who in December announced a stiff austerity budget to begin rebuilding the devastated local economy. The latest oil-price collapse, however, has not helped the government in its planning, having made Nigeria's projections of $8.1 billion in oil revenues this year appear decidedly optimistic...
Tired of working at odd jobs around London, songwriter/guitarist Pat Gribben, once of the Starjets, founded the Adventures in 1982. With the addition of Terry Sharpe on vocals, Spud Murphy, former Starjets producer and then road manager for Stiff Little Finger and The Boomtown Rats, on percussion, Pat's wife Eileen on backing vocals, tambourines, etc., and Tony Ayre on bass, the band began writing, rehearsing and touring...
...books, but not real life. That's what I say. So they tell me Michael has emotional problems, that he's immature. Well, what do you expect? He's young. And his mother don't exactly help either. She doesn't know how to treat kids. She talks stiff to Michael. Like when we're eating, she tells him she won't give him any food. I tell her: "Don't do that to him." I give him mine. She doesn't see what I see, you know what I mean...
...Paris site was chosen after the company studied more than 200 locations in France and Spain. Competition between the two countries was stiff. Spain reportedly offered to finance 30% of the building costs and throw in the land for free. Sniffed Ignacio Fuejo, Spain's Deputy Secretary for Tourism, last week after the decision was announced: "They made a mistake choosing France. The weather is dreadful in Paris...
...John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John?), are one of the show's few weak points. The oh-so-pure Sandra Dee (Susie Glick), though competent, is not entirely convincing. Her singing generally seems a bit forced, as if she wanted to wax operatic. Likewise, her acting is perhaps too stiff for her part...