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Even without the added worry of assassination, Aristide faces a formidable task. Haiti's economy is a shambles, with poverty rampant, electric outages a common occurrence and potable water at a premium. Unemployment and underemployment run at a minimum of 65%, and inflation rises 2% each month. The U.S. is considering increasing food aid, development assistance and other economic credits. But first Aristide must hammer out an economic program...
...real estate market were enough to cast these borderline workers and welfare families out of their homes. For young people approaching the housing market for the first time, there was no point of entry. In Massachusetts cities, a renter must earn $13.65 an hour -- more than three times the minimum wage -- to afford the $800-a-month average rent on a two-bedroom unit in decent condition. Under the Reagan Administration, the Federal Government cut housing assistance 75%, and much of what was left was wasted. The Department of Housing and Urban Development stopped subsidizing new housing and handed...
...Peking University student who helped set up the student forum known as the Democracy Salon, and Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and lecturer at Beijing Normal University. A guilty verdict for counterrevolutionary activity carries a sentence of at least five years in jail; subversion carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in jail, but could also mean life imprisonment or death...
Landings had been banned at Metro because of the fog, but takeoffs were allowed to continue because visibility on the runways was declared to be above the required quarter-mile minimum. Captain William Lovelace, making only his 13th flight after a five-year absence (he had left to get treatment for a kidney-stone ailment and later opened a gift shop), apparently became disoriented in the murk shortly after pulling his DC-9 away from the gate. According to investigators, he made a left turn onto a wrong taxiway, then failed to turn right onto a second taxiway that would...
Should the Iraqis elect to tamper with the uranium in the future, U.S. experts estimate, the process of turning it into a bomb would take a minimum of several months. Since an IAEA inspection might occur within that period, a diversion could be detected before an Iraqi nuclear bomb became a fait accompli. Even if Saddam's scientists succeeded in using the salvaged core to make a bomb, most U.S. experts believe it would be so bulky that it could not be launched by any missile or bomber Iraq possesses, and would thus have to be delivered to its detonation...