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There was virtually no money in Brazil last week. The stock exchange in Sao Paulo registered zero transactions on Monday. Shopping centers were deserted, restaurants empty. Cash-strapped companies laid off thousands of employees. Most flights on Varig, Brazil's international air carrier, and Vasp, the domestic line, were either canceled or flew empty...
What was once considered a lifetime job is no longer such a sure thing. Dismissals of faculty "for cause" -- ranging from sexual harassment and misappropriation to sheer ineptitude -- have risen from virtually zero in the '60s and '70s to about a dozen a year. For the first time in its 123-year history, for example, the University of Kansas is trying to fire a tenured teacher, anthropology Professor Dorothy Willner, 62, who is accused of failing to carry out her "academic responsibilities" and of behaving abusively toward her colleagues and superiors. Says Willner, who denied all the charges...
...forced to step down as president of Covenant House while the allegations are investigated by state and local prosecutors and his religious order. Whether or not the probes result in formal charges, says an observer close to the church, "the chances of Father Ritter returning to Covenant House are zero...
...time all those forces were pushed back or negotiated away, the Soviets' hastily nationalized and collectivized economy was a shambles. By 1920 industrial production had dropped to about 15% of the prewar level; runaway inflation had made the ruble nearly worthless; foreign trade had plummeted to almost zero. Peasants whose crops were requisitioned for the cities began hiding their harvests or not harvesting at all, and in 1921 famine killed uncounted millions...
...heat-seeking surface-to-air missile hurtles skyward faster than the speed of sound. In a matter of seconds, it can zero in on a plane, blasting it from the sky in a sickening burst of flame and smoke. Moreover, such missiles are all too available to terrorist groups and criminals around the world. Last week intelligence reports indicated that the Colombian cocaine cartels may be stockpiling just such antiaircraft devices. The fear is that the drug lords could use them to mount an attack on President George Bush when he flies into the Colombian city of Cartagena...