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...friend Albert Memo, a retired electronics technician, remains content to entrust the future to Fidel. "We have a government we like," he says. Cubans know capitalism, "and we don't want it." But if Castro says Cubans have to do things differently, Memo will go along. He leans back and reminisces: "I am exactly the same age as Fidel, 67. When you meet him, he is so impressive. When he talks, you really trust him, you would follow whatever he decides to do. I love him. Everyone loves...
...announced a new agreement between the superstar's ATV Music Publishing catalogue (which retains many of the Beatles songs) and recorded-music giant EMI. The deal will reportedly make Jackson $90 million richer. Meanwhile, a video compilation called Dangerous: The Short Films has just been released. According to one technician who worked on the compilation, there were serious discussions earlier this fall of cutting out every scene in the video that featured Michael playing around with little kids, but that never happened. Now it appears to be moving briskly. "We never doubted it would sell well," said a buyer...
...beginning to capitalize on their strong points. "Service is an unappreciated American specialty," says Eric Lesin, president of AAC Systems, based in Pasadena, California, a company that sells computerized cost-control systems for large telephone networks. "Sony can snap out a Walkman, but they can't send you a technician to fix it." The priority given by foreign buyers to quality and service allows American exporters to de-emphasize price cutting, which is one reason export-related jobs in the U.S. pay on average 17% more than jobs that produce goods sold only domestically...
...army general who now heads the city soviet, predictably accuse Yeltsin of practicing "a pure form of dictatorship." More ominous for the President, disaffection has spread to young people, who might be expected to back reform. "I'm not really interested in politics," says Sergei Mishin, 20, an industrial technician, "but I know that people just don't believe anyone anymore. Too many promises have been made and not kept...
Rodrigo Lozano, also a biomedical technician at Brigham and Women's, said he expects layoffs...