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...commercial bank loans have multiplied, raising fears of a kind of domino effect of international banking collapses. That grim prospect came uncomfortably close to actuality last month when Mexico declared it could not make its payments. Such action would have left such blue-chip U.S. lenders as BankAmerica, Chase Manhattan and Citicorp holding bad loans of more than $10 billion...
...they followed it inside, methodically firing their Polish-made machine guns. As the carnage began, a waitress was coming down the stairs, tray in hand. "I thought a bomb had gone off," she said. "There were people, chairs, blood everywhere. Then one of them saw me and began to chase me, shooting. I ran down the hall, him following, until I made it to a window. Somehow, I got out." Calmly, the killers finished their business and departed in a white car. Six were dead, 22 injured...
This may be true of car-chase dramas and comedies with laugh tracks, but network news coverage isn't shoddy. CBS, ABC and NBC each spend about a million dollars a week on their nightly news. Big budgets made possible the satellite reporting from West Beirut; large American audiences agonizing over what they saw (including one viewer in the White House) hastened the ceasefire. But if network news is indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans...
...police said two angry bystanders jumped into a car, gave chase and rammed into Brown. They will not be charged with any crime; police later learned that Brown had been shot before being run down and died from the bullet wound. Apparently Brown had become upset over a $20 bill he had received from the garage for repairs on a lawnmower engine...
Indeed, rumors ripped through Wall Street late last week that two major New York banks, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Chase Manhattan, had extended so many loans to Mexico that a default would leave them insolvent. Both banks denied the reports, but rates for three-month maturity U.S. Treasury bills plunged to a 26-month low of 6.99%. Three of the world's largest banks-Bank of America, Citibank and Lloyds Bank...