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...request was motivated by the fact that he has been forced to hide from the special services of the United States, which were persecuting him without grounds," Izvestia said...
...Guided by humane considerations, the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet complied with the request of Edward Lee Howard. He has been granted the right to live in the U.S.S.R. for political reasons," the newpaper said...
...mothers came together in mutual sorrow and desperation. They became friends while spending long nights in the Plaza de Mayo hoping to be one of 10 people each day "permitted" to request information from the Interior Minstry about their missing children. They never got the news they sought. They still know nothing, other than what is obvious after nine years, that their children are dead (though even this they have trouble accepting). In a society in which the family is a sacred institution (opposing divorce is translated as "defending the family") and women still define themselves in terms of their...
Months before his visit to Africa last week, Chief of Correspondents Henry Muller filed a request for an interview with Ethiopian Leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. Success seemed unlikely. Mengistu has been largely inaccessible to the Western press in the dozen years since he and fellow military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie. Muller had reason to hope he might be an exception. Eighteen years earlier, he and his wife Maggie McComas, now an associate editor at FORTUNE, had gone to Ethiopia to teach school as Peace Corps volunteers. Just as Muller was about to embark, word was passed along from Addis...
...country is still a long way from having all of its $12 billion in hand. The IMF is asking commercial banks, which already hold 75% of the Mexican debt, to provide $6 billion of the new credit. The bankers, who were stunned at the size of the request, say that negotiations on the terms of the loans could take months. But large creditors like New York's Citicorp ($2.8 billion already on loan to Mexico) will almost certainly have to go along with the IMF in order to reduce the risk of a default...