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...deal that will boost Roche's drug operations from tenth place to sixth in the worldwide medical diagnostics market. Roche will assume Corange's holdings in Germany's Boehringer Mannheim, a market leader in cardiovascular and cancer treatments. It will also gain an 84.2 percent stake in DePuy, a Warsaw, Indiana-based manufacturer of orthopedic products. The final price of the deal is subject to negotiation. If approved by regulatory authorities, however, the takeover is expected to bring a round of layoffs. Though Roche declined to give specific figures, the Swiss industrial labor union GBI said it feared job cuts...
...fact, Yeltsin's aides say, he did not assent to NATO expansion. Russians of every political stripe hate the idea that next July their former Warsaw Pact allies, most likely Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, will be invited to join NATO by 1999. But Yeltsin can see that it is inevitable and is determined to squeeze the best possible deal out of the West in return for grudging tolerance. Russia hopes to make the whole process so difficult that the first three new members of the Atlantic alliance might turn out to be the last...
...Columbia professor told New York, "The great majority of officers were certainly Jews." A professor in Warsaw found a Who's Who of the 447 top officers from 1944 to 1953, and thirty percent declared they were Jews. (How many Jews didn't declare it? How many deserted...
DIED. JERZY MILEWSKI, 61, key player in the formation of Lech Walesa's Solidarity trade union, who also served as security chief upon the return of ex-communist rulers to Poland; after a long illness; in Warsaw...
Bulgaria was the most docile of the old Warsaw Pact states, and its bosses held onto the bobbing wreckage of the Soviet-era centralized economy long after the bloc broke up in 1989. The Communist Party, restyled the Socialist Party, has governed for four of the seven years since then, keeping 90% of the economy in the hands of the state. While inflation soared and wages plummeted, corrupt officials stripped the country of its assets, turning the rest of Bulgaria's 8.4 million people into some of the poorest in Europe. Bulgarians have had enough and are demanding that Parliament...