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...entire foreign debt, more than $36 billion. Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko has a personal fortune that has been estimated from $4 billion to $6 billion, not far below the level of the country's external debt. He has isolated himself from his people -- and from gathering political unrest -- aboard a luxury yacht that cruises the Zaire River...
...severe sense of economic malaise, Petersonsuggested, could prompt enough unrest--and enoughsupport for Clinton's "change" ticket--to tip theNovember balance in Democrats' favor
...that history ended with the fall of communism. The world is full of problems that are more serious than ever before. It would be a mistake to blame communism for all of civilization's problems and to think that its fall would make them disappear. The recent explosion of unrest in Los Angeles proved that even in a country with democracy and an advanced economy, conflicts may erupt to which the system has no answers...
Braving the labor unrest, Gonzalez seems determined to wrestle Spain's economy into line with inflation and budget-deficit targets set out in the E.C.'s December agreement at Maastricht. Despite growing doubts elsewhere in Europe, a majority of Spaniards still support the treaty, and Gonzalez has not wavered since he told parliament this spring, "For a country like ours, historically isolated, no effort should be spared to board this train. Our well-being and our stability depend on our success in adapting to the construction of Europe." The restructuring of Spain's noncompetitive heavy industry is under...
Steeling itself for further unrest, the government is preparing a new law restricting the right to strike. Similarly, dissent in a flamboyantly free press may be dampened by proposed criminal penalties for libel. "Gonzalez is following in the old regime's authoritarian tradition," charges editor Ramirez, whose paper has aggressively investigated corruption. The government has also taken heat for a new law that allows detention of anyone failing to carry identity papers and permits the search of private homes without warrants in cases of suspected drug dealing...