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...soldiers seemed to handle White roughly. When the North Koreans twice refused a request from White's commander for a face-to-face meeting with the G.I., it seemed possible that he was not, as the Communists claimed, under their "warm protection" after having "requested political asylum." Late last week, however, the Army concluded officially that White, 20, had shot open the guard-post lock. If, in fact, he walked across the DMZ voluntarily, it would mark the first defection by a U.S. soldier in Korea in 17 years, and the fifth since the Korean War ended...
...conducted. The French phone company has ordered 300,000 more consoles just like hers, the largest single contract for computer terminals ever signed. This month it will begin giving them away around the northwestern city of Rennes at the rate of 10,000 a month. For those who request one, the computer terminal will be a standard feature of their telephone service, replacing the local phone book. Instead of looking up a number in the directory, customers will simply turn on a machine and search for the number electronically...
...there has been little opposition to Mexico's request to postpone the payment of $10 billion in principle on short-term loans. There is still no agreement, though, on Mexico's request for up to $1 billion to use as a stand-by loan...
...salvage effort is Mexico's application to the International Monetary Fund for about $4 billion in loans over the next three years. Banking sources said that the request might be approved within six weeks, which would in turn give the commercial banks enough confidence to reschedule Mexico's debts. But the IMF is likely to demand some painful belt-tightening measures, including wage freezes, import restrictions and reduced government subsidies, which could dangerously aggravate social tensions in Mexico...
...frame. This technique reasonably preserves the director's original compositions. European television has been using such masking for years, but American television has remained leery. "It's dreadful," says a Cinemax executive. In 1981, according to the executive, when HBO acceded to Woody Allen's request that it show his Manhattan masked, viewer response was negative: "You just can't laugh at Woody Allen when he's only 1½ inches tall...