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...police arrested Mughogho and charged him with distribution of false literature likely to cause public unrest. He said they accused him of distributing leaflets that urged Malawians to blow their car horns as a form of protest...
...Social unrest, militant unions, wrongheaded economic policy and rapacious local businessmen out to gain by hook or by crook contribute to what global investors call "political risk." It's something Indonesia has in spades. In June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. was declared bankrupt by a domestic court despite the fact that the operation was solvent and profitable. The inexplicable decision, made because Manulife didn't pay a dividend to shareholders in 1999, was later overturned, but not before the case received international publicity. Partly...
...Canal or Gulf to navigate. The Bali blast is a reminder that no place is safe from terror, and recent fighting in Ivory Coast is a symbol of West Africa's volatility, but oilmen remain bullish in part because oil production is offshore and thus rarely disturbed by onshore unrest. "West Africa may not be particularly stable but it is not as dangerous as the Middle East," says George Ayittey, head of the African Oil Policy Initiative Group, a division of the Israel-based Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies. As Africa supplies more of America's oil needs...
Daniel Pipes ’71 includes Harvard on a list of 14 colleges and universities, including Columbia and Stanford, whose professors and administrators he says propagate bias and student unrest...
...death. (All this is hashed out in overwrought "debates"--which take place in R.F.K.'s head--between Roache and Martin Donovan as the ghost of J.F.K.) Did Robert want the presidency for himself? For his family? The standard answer, given here, is that, moved by Vietnam and urban unrest, he grew to want it for all of us. But his transformation feels mechanical, dictated by the needs of the movie. Roache does capture R.F.K.'s brash outer persona rather than do a mere impersonation. But, as for Kennedy's inner life, after two hours, has anybody here seen...