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...jury apparently agreed. Said Juror William Savage, 37, a carpenter: "We knew the financial statements were wrong, but there wasn't enough evidence to show that he had actually intended to make false statements." Anthony Tigner, 25, a railroad porter, admitted that the jury was leaning toward conviction on at least one charge, but added, "Certain people felt the defendants were not guilty, regardless of the evidence...
...economic survival, Mozambique depends primarily on South Africa. Pretoria runs the railroad that links many South African inland cities to the Indian Ocean port facilities at Maputo. It also buys most of the hydroelectric power produced by Mozambique's Cabora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River. About 35,000 Mozambican workers are employed in South Africa's gold and coal mines. Although Machel opposes South Africa's apartheid policies, he also recognizes that the two countries share a long common border. "This is a reality that can be neither ignored nor altered," he says. "Peaceful co-existence...
Like animals long used to a chafing yoke, the townsfolk can take known evils in stride. Ill winds from the outside world bring them something worse. Two engineers arrive to oversee the laying of railroad lines that will forever end the isolation of the town. The local timber merchant, Pritykin (Gary Bayer), hopes to grasp the railroad-ties concession in his sweaty palms. But mostly the villagers treat the coming of the engineers as if it were a visit from royalty, bringing a scent of urbanity to their drab dismal lives...
...scarcity has been made harsher because markets have not been allowed to operate properly. Only for a brief time during the 1930s were petroleum prices set entirely by supply and demand. The cost of oil: an astonishingly low 100 per bbl. Prodded by the major oil producers, the Texas Railroad Commission began controlling output, thus pumping up the price...
...People want resident-only parking here--the nearby railroad station means the streets are always clogged," Crehan says. Crehan and his precinct's other representatives to the town meeting will discuss the problem Tuesday at a precinct assembly, but Crehan says the chances for a solution are dim: "A lot of politically powerful people in the town park on our streets...