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This week's visit from a delegation of government and business leaders from Cambridge's sister city of Yerevan has laid the groundwork for business relations with the Armenian capital, officials said...
...Among the topics discussed will be creative financing, marketing, and the legal groundwork [of setting up a business]," said Huhne. Rippey said the conference would also cover foreign trade and "the prospect for entrepreneurialism." Club member York M. Eggleston '92 added that panelists might include Harvard professors...
Leshchinsky's commentary seemed to reflect deepening Soviet pessimism about Najibullah's survival amid the outcome of the nine-year struggle against mujahedin insurgents. In Kabul the Kremlin appeared to be laying the groundwork for a negotiated change of government. Two weeks ago Sayed Mohammed Gulabzoi, the once powerful Interior Minister, was suddenly posted to Moscow as ambassador, a kind of exile. His apparent problem: opposition to compromise with the mujahedin. Last week another sympathizer of the hard-line Khalqi faction, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghaffer Lakanwal, defected to the U.S. while in New York to attend the U.N. General...
...Central America that George Bush will have to deal with come January is a place that will require fresh approaches to frustratingly old problems. While the Reagan Administration can claim credit for laying the groundwork for democracy in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, all three governments remain dependent on the support of military establishments that continue to exert considerable influence in civilian affairs. Death squads with links to the military still use guns to silence critics, making a mockery of the precepts of democratic dialogue and respect for human rights. And regionwide, the basic standard of living has sunk...
...have to wait until we look starved, like victims of a concentration camp," said Guernsey. "At that point the press will pick it up and the pressure will build. Now we are laying the groundwork for that...