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...tightly last week. After two weeks of sometimes intense dickering, the U.N. Security Council voted 13 to 0, with Yemen and Cuba abstaining, to authorize "such measures commensurate to the specific circumstances" to enforce the sanctions voted against Iraq four days after the invasion. At Soviet insistence, the phrase "minimum use of force" was dropped, but that is still what the new, vaguer language means. With five dissent-free votes condemning Iraq in three weeks, the Security Council has taken on surprising new life as an international policeman...
...stock market in which the only two issues available are Democratic Senator Tom Harkin and his Republican challenger Tom Tauke. (Because the university draws students from neighboring Illinois, shares in Paul Simon and his G.O.P. opponent Lynn Martin will soon be available.) Investors can buy a bundled issue, a minimum of one share each in Harkin and Tauke, for $2. Or they can go into the open market and buy shares in either candidate; at the moment, Harkin is trading at $1.20 and Tauke at 80 cents. Do these price fluctuations have any bearing on the November outcome? The same...
Getting on the water is also difficult. Most of the 22,000 slots for riding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon go to commercial companies. Individuals face a minimum waiting time of three to five years. The toughest permit: the one to traverse Northern Idaho's Selway River, a rafter's prize because it is navigable only a few weeks of the year. The odds of winning the pass...
Three Broadway theaters will impose a ceiling of $24 on tickets for plays produced under the plan. To slash costs, Alliance members will work for less money. Actors, for example, will accept a 25% reduction in minimum salaries and receive a share of any profits. The Alliance hopes the markdowns will bring back theater enthusiasts who have been forced to turn to off-Broadway houses...
...lines formed at the teller windows after breakfast," said Ingo Fahlisch, manager of the savings bank where most of the townsfolk had their accounts. "But then it returned to normal." In the first week of monetary union, East Germans withdrew only $2.7 billion, well below the $3.5 billion minimum forecast by the Bundesbank...