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Intelligence experts fear that many terrorists have been able to replace Soviet financing with money from Iran, which is said to be backing undercover extremists from Algeria to Thailand -- while simultaneously bidding for better official relations with the West. A rising fear is that Tehran may seek to capitalize on the chaos engendered by the collapse of the U.S.S.R. by inspiring Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in the mostly Muslim Central Asian republics once ruled from Moscow. Worldwide, "Iran's attempts to export the Islamic revolution have largely replaced the former Soviet Union's communist revolutionary zeal" as a source...
...Then, as Thailand discovered last week, the result can be embarrassment and uncertainty. The designee is Narong Wongwan, 66, a lumber and tobacco millionaire whose pro-military Justice and Unity Party won the most seats in Thailand's first parliamentary elections since a bloodless coup 13 months ago. Soon after Narong was named to head a five-party coalition government, Washington officials disclosed that he had been denied a visa to enter the U.S. last July because of alleged links to Thailand's opium and heroin trade...
Mexico and Thailand have announced that they would like to phase out CFCs on the same timetable as the developed nations. One factor spurring them on may be the likelihood that exports not meeting strict ozone-friendly standards could soon face international sanctions. But there is also grass-roots pressure in some developing countries. In Mexico, for example, consumer complaints persuaded local manufacturers that it was time to begin removing CFCs from aerosol products. The changeover happened so quickly that when one company ran out of labels saying THIS IS A CFC-FREE PRODUCT, store managers rejected the shipment, knowing...
This simply underlines how many games there now are in town. New York, London and Tokyo may be the heavyweights, but there is action in Thailand, Jordan and Chile as well. Datastream International, a company that provides market data, tracks 40 stock markets worldwide. Brokerage houses now need the horizons of travel agents to satisfy a clientele no longer content to stay at home. Much treasure lies buried on distant shores, in places that used to show up only in holiday brochures or travelogues...
Growth, Change or Conservation? Buddhist Ecological Action in Thailand--with Susan Darlington of the Hampshire College School of Social Science. In Coolidge Hall, room...