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...danger of coming away with no answer to that question, however, may prove to be the best spur to productive talks at the three-day session. The No. 1 worry for the seven leaders is the rising potential for global recession along with a painful end to five years of sustained economic growth. To help prolong that expansion, the leaders must try to make stronger commitment to resist the lure of protectionism, which is beginning to cast a dangerous pall over world trade. Another summit priority will be taking further steps to ease the international debt crisis, which is simmering...
...Tukano leader, Benedito Machado, angered by the forces aligned against his people, says, "The church taught us to turn the other cheek, but it taught us nothing about the cunning, the subtleties and lies the white man uses." Nevertheless, the 200 Indian leaders who attended a three-day summit meeting last month in Sao Gabriel with mining, government, military and Salesian representatives proved to be highly articulate -- patently a result of their missionary training. In florid speeches, they demanded land rights so they can levy royalties on gold that is mined, as well as better communications, health care and education...
Skepticism dogged the Prime Minister throughout his three-day visit. In the past few years several Japanese leaders have traveled to Washington and promised to take action that would reduce the trade deficit. But the only result has been a larger and larger trade imbalance...
...latest confrontation began when angry officers staged uprisings at a barracks near Cordoba, some 400 miles north of Buenos Aires, and at the Campo de Mayo army base just outside the capital. Their chief demand: amnesty from prosecution for human rights violations. Alfonsin personally intervened to end < the three-day rebellion at Campo de Mayo. With more than 1,000 loyal government soldiers approaching the base on Sunday, he helicoptered from the presidential palace for a face-to-face talk with Lieut. Colonel Aldo Rico, who led the uprising...
...Soweto, anonymous pamphlets called for a three-day general work stoppage to protest municipal police actions against rent-strikers. Thousands stayed home from jobs and school, some out of fear. Black militants stoned buses until all bus and taxi service between Soweto and Johannesburg temporarily shut down...