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...votes were counted up and down the Andean nation, Garcia's A.P.R.A. had unofficially won in nine of Peru's ten largest cities, a gain of four. Combined with the party's control of both houses of the national legislature, the sweep placed the charismatic, youthful President at the zenith of his power. Said Garcia: "There was a popular triumph here...
Last February IBM was embarrassed by its loss of a $27 million Internal Revenue Service contract for 15,000 lap-top PCs to Zenith, a relative newcomer to the industry. In April IBM abandoned the retail computer business, selling 81 stores to NYNEX, the New York-based regional telephone company. The shops had sluggish sales in part because they offered only IBM machines, while competitors stocked a wide range of models...
...country's crops are privately grown and some industry is in private hands. Associates say that from the moment Mengistu became chief of state nine years ago, the Chairman, as he is known, has been a nationalist first and a Marxist second. Now Mengistu is reaching the zenith of his influence at home and abroad. "Ethiopia is the key to the Horn of Africa," says a Western expert, "and Mengistu is the keeper...
After the Ukraine was absorbed into the Russian Empire in the late 18th century, successive Tsars repeatedly suppressed the nationalist natives. The Tsar's attempts to Russify Ukraine reached its zenith in 1876 when the Tsar issued the Ems Ukaz, which banned all publishing in Ukrainian. Ironically the Harvard building which houses the Ukrainian Institute was built in that year...
...deals were dramatic evidence of Zenith's growing reputation as a computer maker. Together with earlier contracts signed since 1983 with the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the new sales bring the value of Zenith's total computer business with the Government to $500 million. Says Andrew Czernek, marketing manager for Zenith's computer subsidiary: "Someday, we hope to be known as widely for our computers as for our TVs. At the Pentagon, that's already happened...