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...companies have been mounting legal efforts to strike back. Three Silicon Valley firms, Intel, National Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices, complained to the Government in September that their Japanese rivals are selling certain types of chips in the U.S. at artificially low prices. Last week the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that the Commerce Department should open a probe of the matter. The U.S. manufacturers want a fair shake in the Japanese market as well. The Semiconductor Industry Association formally complained to the U.S. Trade Representative last June that Japan was blocking access to its markets. Japanese companies deny both...
...reawakening of Nevado del Ruiz was the second cataclysm to strike Latin America in two months. In Mexico, the government of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado was still coping painfully with the aftermath of the Sept. 19 earthquake, which left as many as 20,000 dead and, by some estimates, up to 150,000 homeless. Colombia's volcanic catastrophe seemed especially poignant in a country that has been plagued since World War II by a seemingly endless series of man-made travails: civil war, leftist terrorism and battles with a powerful and entrenched drug mafia. Said Colombian President Belisario...
...seven claim they were beaten, hooded with plastic bags, dunked in buckets of water containing tear gas and tortured with electric shocks. The case was dismissed on a technicality. Meanwhile, some 200 to 300 detainees being held at prisons in the Cape Town area reportedly began a hunger strike to protest their confinement. VIET NAM A Bid to Break an Impasse...
...He’s become a strike-thrower,” Walsh said. “Every batter, it’s 0-1, 1-1. You don?...
What would a week without Teaching Fellows (TFs) be like? We no longer have to wonder—all we have to do is ask our peers at Columbia and Yale, where non-science graduate teaching assistants are on strike this week fighting for their right to unionize. While we sympathize with the demands of graduate students at these schools, we feel that unionization is not the best way to solve the problems inherent in the current system for both undergraduates and graduate students. Instead, universities should proactively enact changes to improve the way TFs are paid and the responsibilities...