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...hesitation to build new factories could cause trouble. Companies may be forced to turn away customers, missing an unusual chance to wrest market share away from foreign competitors. Says David Hale, chief economist for Kemper Financial Services: "We have had five years of underinvestment in manufacturing. This may simply represent a form of corporate anorexia...
Jean de Florette, set in the 1920s, described the attempt of the clever Papet (Yves Montand) and his dim-witted nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil)--the last remaining members of what used to be the richest and most glorious family in the region--to wrest the land of a neighboring farmer, a hunchback...
...four agreed to call on the junta to resign. Meanwhile, many Haitians worried about the adverse financial consequences of a protracted strike. The result: two days of spotty protests that were in stark contrast to last June's successful strikes, which foiled Namphy's attempt to wrest control of the country's voting process from the electoral council. Said a factory worker locked out of his job: "The only way to strike against these people is with arms...
Despite the hopes of Americans and Haitians alike, Namphy's junta never demonstrated a commitment to fair elections. As early as last June, Namphy attempted to wrest control of the voting process from the electoral council. Ensuing protests forced the general to back down, but not before soldiers had shot 30 Haitians dead. Two months later a presidential candidate was hacked to death by machete. In October a second candidate was shot fatally. In neither instance was an investigation publicly ordered. Last month the electoral council, citing the new constitution's ten-year ban on Duvalierists seeking public office, disqualified...
...powerful vote of confidence for the regional peace plan authored by Arias that was signed two months ago in Guatemala City by five Central American Presidents. The prize both enhances the credibility of the fragile peace process and augments Arias' moral authority as an arbiter of peace to wrest new concessions from the various parties to the plan. At the same time, it further impedes the Reagan Administration's attempts to secure $270 million in new aid for the contra rebels fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Concedes an Administration official: "This complicates everything we're trying...