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...Tin Drum...
...annually enjoy palm-lined beaches and seaside restaurants, were hard put last week to find much serenity. The peace was shattered by some 50,000 rampaging residents, angry at the projected opening of a tantalum factory near downtown Phuket. Protesters feared that pollutants from the refining of tantalum, a tin by-product used in the production of electronic equipment, might poison both the island's water supply and its blossoming tourist trade...
...imposed austerity measures on an economy paralyzed by a 24,000% inflation rate, widespread labor unrest and a foreign debt of $4.8 billion. Says Paz Estenssoro: "We are attempting to rescue the country from ruin." The job has been complicated by the worldwide collapse in the prices of tin and natural gas, two key sources of export earnings...
...Double features are double fun, said Donald N. Fawcett '89, who is interested in seeing Breaker Morant and The Tin Drum...
...University of Florida in Gainesville, members from all 50 of the school's flourishing fraternities and sororities ran marathons for money and shook tin cups until they raised some $10,000 for the Stop Children's Cancer Fund...