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...strength of its oil riches have been growing increasingly edgy about their borrower, and the chance of a big drop in oil prices has done nothing to soothe their nerves. For the past month the lenders have been putting the final touches on a rescheduling agreement designed to halt the financial skid that Mexico has been in since late summer, when the country nationalized its banks after devaluing the peso for the second time in less than a year. U.S. private lenders alone have some $25 billion at risk in Mexico, a sum that puts that nation, along with Brazil...
...Harvard team was the first to successfully halt the malfunctioning T-cells using a new approach that is more specific and less damaging than previous methods, Dr. Stefan C. Meuer, a member of the research group, said yesterday...
...Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian guerrilla organization that seeks to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Tehran government. Later, Aziz and Rajavi issued a joint communiqué calling for a halt to hostilities and a negotiated settlement...
...program runs directly counter to the Reagan Administration's efforts to launch talks aiming toward a broad Middle East peace settlement. Last September, President Reagan offered a peace plan under which the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would become associated with Jordan. He called on Israel to halt its expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, hoping that such a step would bring Jordan to the bargaining table. Prime Minister Menachem Begin angrily rejected the Reagan plan, saying that the West Bank, which he refers to by the biblical names of Judea and Samaria, belongs to the Jewish...
Initially, The Wedding Party seems like a familiar '20s moving picture parody. Then the footage slows down, and the movie--for all intents and purposes--grinds to a halt. DePalma seems to have experimented with various camera angles and various splicing techniques, as if this film was practice. Although this filming is unusual experimentation with form, it fails in its inability to lift and carry the action...