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Soldier, politician and poet, Hussain Mohammad Ershad is a man who has taken pride in his sense of balance. For almost nine years he managed to maintain his footing in the notoriously slippery ground of Bangladesh politics. Last week, however, the President ran out of ground to stand on. Resigning in a dramatic late-night announcement, he touched off jubilant dancing in the streets by people who viewed his humiliation as poetic justice...
...bankruptcy court last week. Faced with rising fuel costs and $2.2 billion of debt incurred under Frank Lorenzo, the airline's expansion- minded former boss, Continental filed for protection while it prepares a repayment plan. "We were just running out of cash," said chairman Hollis Harris, who vowed to maintain the airline's full schedule of flights...
...come to pick up about 400 Libyan prisoners released by Deby, some of whom had been jailed since 1982, and to unload "humanitarian supplies," including a Renault luxury sedan, apparently a gift to Deby from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Deby defended freeing the Libyans as a move to help maintain good relations with Chad's northern neighbor. However, the prisoner release, along with reports that Libya provided at least 40% of the equipment for Deby's army, stirred fears that Gaddafi is poised to use Chad as a base to project his influence throughout the region...
...Charles Pollak, head of the sleep-disorder center at Cornell University's New York Hospital in Westchester County. "It doesn't make it difficult to walk, see or hear. But people who don't get enough sleep can't think, they can't make appropriate judgments, they can't maintain long attention spans...
Webster warned that it would take longer, however, before the Iraqi military started feeling squeezed. Given the static defensive posture of Saddam's air and ground forces, which reduces wear and tear on equipment, they could probably maintain their current level of readiness for nine months at least. After that, however, the unavailability of spare parts would start to tell, especially for Iraq's high-tech air force. Webster predicted that by as early as next March, Baghdad would have to reduce reconnaissance and training flights by its fleet of French- and Soviet-made aircraft. The departure of foreign technicians...