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...work-related issues, and their efforts met with varying success. Last year 40,000 black miners staged their first legal strike and won wage and benefit increases from South Africa's mining companies, which have generally been receptive to reforms. In September, however, the miners' union was forced to suspend a strike after only three days when less conciliatory mine operators threatened to dismiss the strikers and evict them from company-owned housing...
...various estimates, about two-thirds of South Africa's total foreign debt of some $17 billion will mature within a year. In the past, the banks simply rolled these borrowings over, in the fashion of a charge account. The government's immediate response to the loan problem was to suspend trading on foreign exchange and stock markets in South Africa. Further emergency measures are expected shortly...
...boss of Hans Joachim Tiedge, 48, head of the agency's East Germany section, who defected to that country two weeks ago. Despite complaints from co-workers that Tiedge was a security risk because of his heavy drinking and mounting debts, Hellenbroich had refused to move or suspend him, an action that Kohl called "totally incomprehensible." Even so, Hellenbroich insisted that he had not made a mistake. "I'd do it again," he said after his dismissal...
...intrauterine birth control device. Deluged by more than 12,000 lawsuits charging that the Dalkon Shield was responsible for countless serious illnesses and at least 20 deaths among the women who used it, Robins last week filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The move could suspend the suits for at least a year while the company tries to work out a plan to pay claims that may amount to $1 billion. E. Claiborne Robins Jr., the firm's president, said that the action was necessary "to protect the company's economic vitality against those who would...
Experience shows that a strategy of simply denying U.S. nuclear exports to countries that refuse to accept full-scope safeguards is not very satisfactory. Soon after the nonproliferation act was passed by Congress, for example, some U.S. legislators demanded that the Administration suspend a contract to supply fuel to India's two U.S.-built Tarapur power reactors. The installation has been governed by international safeguards since 1963, but India refuses to accept the principle of all-embracing inspection. In retaliation for the U.S. pressure, New Delhi warned that it would void the existing Tarapur safeguards agreement. If carried out, that...