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Japan refused to back down. Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who once called Kantor "even more aggressive than my wife when I come home drunk," promptly lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization in Geneva demanding that the tariffs be thrown out. Not to be outdone, the U.S. plans to ask the organization to rule that Japan's entire method of conducting trade is unfair...
...while last week it looked as though the outbreak might soon be brought under control. The plague police-medical teams dispatched by who in Geneva, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) in Atlanta and other public health groups-had set up an effective isolation ward at the main hospital in Kikwit, where the first case had been identified. Belgium's Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) rushed in loads of gloves, gowns, masks and other essential equipment to restore hygiene to filthy clinics. But when the strike forces, aided by local medical students, fanned out through...
...confirmed a new board of directors May 1, electing a new president, Geneva T. Malenfant...
That same spring, I applied for a summer job in Geneva. I felt certain that I would get it, and spent the whole of May waiting to hear. May came and went, but I didn't hear from the people in Switzerland. And so I found myself home in Oxnard, California--Strawberry and Lima Bean Capital of the World, summer training home of the L.A. Raiders and probably the only place in the universe named after bull testicles--with no job and no pecuniary prospects for the summer. Fate, in the guise of Scott, my best friend from high school...
...received a call from Switzerland telling me that I had the job. Despite the fact that I'd already joined the union of movie theater employees and was well on my way to winning employee of the month, I said goodbye to Gina and Whoopi and flew to Geneva. And while my two weeks at the cinema may not have been Paradiso, it wan't a half-bad Purgatorio, with real butter...