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Against that backdrop of unexpected economic malaise, TIME last week assembled its U.S., European and Pacific Boards of Economists for a two-day session in New York City. The joint meeting, the first of its kind, brought together 19 distinguished economists from 13 countries plus Hong Kong for an unusually comprehensive examination of the non-Communist world's prospects. A special guest at the meeting was former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who discussed how political forces are affecting the economic outlook...
...Christian Nucci, his Socialist predecessor and creator of Carrefour du Developpement, an organization designed to publicize Third World concerns. The state auditor has been unable to account for $1.4 million in the Carrefour budget. In addition, more than $6 million was spent by Nucci's agency on a two-day conference in Burundi...
...occasion for this sudden halt in activity was a two-day general strike, called last week by a vast coalition of labor and other opposition groups seeking the ouster of Dictator General Augusto Pinochet. The work stoppage appeared to be one of the most effective antigovernment actions in the 13 years since Pinochet seized power. "The strike was a complete success, even beyond what we expected," said Juan Luis Gonzalez, who heads the Assembly of Civility, the umbrella group of 250 unions, student groups and civic organizations that joined to sponsor the strike...
...government, caught by surprise, was slow to respond to the action. But by late afternoon on Wednesday, the strike's first day, thousands of troops, their faces daubed with black to conceal their features, arrived at plazas and the teeming slums that border Chile's major cities. During the two-day protest, security forces killed eight people, including a 13-year-old girl who witnesses said was carrying bread home from a Santiago bakery. Thirty-eight people were wounded and 300 arrested, including 180 who have been detained. Leftist guerrillas reacted with counterviolence. They set off at least 30 bombs...
...party. This country enjoys that sort of thing. People want to have a good time." And while critics sneer at the 200 Elvis Presley look-alikes, he grouses, "Nobody talks about Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic." Nor, he adds, is anyone giving him credit for the two-day conference of creative thinkers on liberty...