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...Ford Escorts moved unobtrusively down a quiet, tree-lined avenue in Restelo, an affluent suburb of Lisbon. One stopped outside the driveway of the Turkish embassy; the other turned sharply, burst through the compound's 3-ft.-high iron gates and jolted to a halt. An armed man advanced on the embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide...
...next year, will apply only to five ministries that control transport and heavy-machinery plants, electrotechnical factories, and selected industries in the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania. But they will give local managers in these target factories a greater role in setting their own production goals. In an effort to halt the decline in exports of manufactured goods, which accounted for only about 13% of all 1982 exports, managers will also be expected to measure output more in terms of quality than quantity...
National Public Radio (NPR) will broadcast its normally scheduled programs today after receiving an $8.5 million loan allowing the network to replay debts which threatened to halt its programming...
Some economists, on the other hand, fear that the Federal Reserve will reignite inflation, which now is running at less than 5%, if it does not halt the M1 expansion. The Government reported last week that producer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.6% in June. A renewed outbreak of rising prices would boost interest rates and eventually slow the recovery. Asserts former Treasury Secretary William Simon: "Unless somebody bites the monetary bullet, we're destined to pay the inflation penalty...
...affiliated with the anti-Sandinista guerrilla movements and in fact are calling for a "nonviolent" settlement to the fighting, the four have close ties with some factions of the Nicaraguan opposition, including the guerrillas, and might be able to hold out for terms that could end the fighting: a halt in the Sandinistas' current efforts to establish totalitarian control over the country, and elections leading to a genuinely pluralistic government...