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...resort island of Cavallo, off southern Corsica, at least three different explosive devices set off during the night caused extensive damage to 66 apartments and businesses owned mostly by mainland French residents and foreigners. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings, but authorities suspect separatist militants who have been seeking to end French rule over the Mediterranean island. No deaths or injuries were reported...
...Latin American figures such as Argentina's Minister of Economy, Public Works and Service, Domingo Cavallo, and former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari are Harvard graduates. They've embraced, and with a degree of success implemented, liberalization and the discipline imposed by its corollaries...
...Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs Lawrence H. Summers and Argentine Minister of Economy, Public works, and Services Domingo F. Cavallo also spoke at the meeting...
...North Carolina, took her findings to the White House and Attorney General Janet Reno last month. Their goal: to press for a re-examination of U.S. business ties to Iraq and the role of the Justice Department in a possible cover-up. Last week at a Washington reception, the Cavallo Foundation honored Gasior with a $10,000 award for her "moral courage" and for her efforts to ! expose wrongdoing. Said Rose at the ceremony: "She is remarkable and courageous, and without her, much of what we know could not have been learned...
...Argentina, where a free fall in the value of the austral threatened to raise inflation astronomically, the central bank was forced to intervene. The appointment by President Carlos Saul Menem of a new Economy Minister, Domingo Cavallo, appeared to restore investor confidence. By week's end the austral had been stabilized -- at a value of roughly 36% less against the dollar than a week earlier -- and investment funds rose 40%. But inflation remains such an endemic problem for the economies of both Argentina and Brazil that the prospect of last week's actions leading to real progress remained doubtful...