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...mayor put up by his ruling center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (A.P.R.A.) needed help. The limo wheeled around and headed back to the presidential palace half a mile away. Bucking a tradition that has kept Peruvian chief executives aloof from local elections, President Alan Garcia Perez, 37, thereupon ordered microphones and a TV camera installed on a balcony so that he could "spontaneously" welcome a crowd of 50,000 A.P.R.A. supporters at the palace two nights later...
...allies, who would prefer that the U.S. restrain domestic demand by cutting its budget deficit, jawboned back. European finance ministers and central bankers met on Sept. 21 at the Scottish resort of Gleneagles, and word leaked that the Europeans might intervene to prop up the greenback. The dollar thereupon rebounded...
...weekend cleaning woman at the Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, the clear plastic bags on the floor of the computer room looked to be full of trash. She thereupon heaved them into a bin that was taken to a garbage- compaction area. But the following Monday, Continental's data processors discovered they were short $227 million in checks that the bank had honored but not yet entered in its computers. A crew of janitors then began searching the immediate area, to no avail. Finally, after an anxious hunt, they located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper...
...aboard a ship that had picked them up at the south Indian port of Madras. But five days before the fishermen found them, the refugees said, the ship's crew told them that they had paid only to be transported "near" Canada rather than all the way. They were thereupon loaded into the scantily provisioned lifeboats and told that they were six miles from Montreal, a city that is almost 1,000 miles west of St. John...
...reaching Damascus 2 1/2 hours later, Jenco demanded, "Where's Terry Anderson's sister?" He was thereupon greeted by Peggy Say, who was in Syria seeking the release of her brother, another hostage. The two embraced and wept...