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From South Africa's viewpoint, U.S. holdings loom large. American companies control nearly 70% of the nation's computer industry and one-half of its petroleum business. Yet from the U.S. perspective, the activity is relatively small. Although bank loans amount to $3.88 billion and stock holdings in South African companies to $7.6 billion, direct investment of U.S. corporations was only $2.3 billion at the end of last year. That is a mere 1% of all U.S. corporate investment abroad...
Working with standard Leicas and a new wide-angle camera called the Technorama, Ruetz records the country from his fresh, often idiosyncratic viewpoint. An aerial shot, intentionally, shows as much of the helicopter he is in as the Grand Canyon below. He gives a slightly mordant dimension to the panorama of St. Louis and its Gateway Arch by shooting from East St. Louis with the littered river shore in the foreground. Throughout, Ruetz exploits the interplay of light and landscape at dawn and sunset: in a pair of striking pictures of Monument Valley, for example, and in a dramatic gatefold...
Geraldine Ferraro was head and shoulders above George Bush in the vice-presidential debate [NATION, Oct. 22]. She was always in control. He came off as agitated, high-strung, faltering and angry when any viewpoint but his was expressed...
Though McDonough firmly announces this interpretive viewpoint in the program notes, he then utterly undermines it with a second bright idea. He sets the play in the backstage of a thirties burleslque theatre, and transplants that all-American theatrical style onto the Renaissance text...
...announced that the proposed guidelines are being put into effect. He also said he will appoint a permanent panel of journalists to assist in planning for news coverage of future military conflicts. Said he: "By forming such a committee, I wish to ensure that the media's viewpoint can be expressed in our highest councils on a continuing basis...