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Conditions in Russia more closely resemble a bazaar than a bank. Industry and most sectors of the economy are tottering; workers are mostly unpaid. Poor people are inventive, goes a Russian proverb, and the poorer they are the more inventive they become. Among the most aggrieved are the 100,000 workers employed in national nuclear plants and laboratories, whose salaries have slid to $100 a month -- or no pay at all for months at a time. So almost anything is for sale. Last year Russian police acknowledged thwarting 11 attempts to steal uranium from nuclear installations...
...admitting its troops in the refugee camps were "out of control," said it would withdraw about 400 soldiers who have been pilfering Rwandan refugees' food and possessions in the border town of Goma. Thousands of Rwandans in the Goma camps protested Thursday against the soldiers, many of whom were unpaid for months and went AWOL to Goma to seek their fortune. About 60 miles to the south today, some 50,000 people reportedly massed across the border from the Zairian city of Bukavu, underscoring relief workers' fears of a new exodus when French troops leave southwest Rwanda in 10 days.RETURN...
...extraordinary increase in benefit in Plan B is due to two factors: The elimination of the 40% up-front tax payment and the compounding of interest on the unpaid balance...
Some of the unpaid debts included money owed WGBH-TV which had supplied a producer, Susie Dangel, for the show, Lee said...
...impatient with the speaker's stewardship of the chamber. Though he fell out of favor with O'Neill, Panetta fought back, eventually taking control of the House Budget Committee in 1989. One longtime Panetta advantage has been his wife Sylvia, who ran his district office in California as an unpaid aide while raising three boys...