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Banks and Big Steel. It takes a lot of turmoil to shake these once sturdy pillars of U.S. business. But in the past few years, plenty of trouble has come along to torment some of the most rock-solid names in each of those industries. Economic upheavals ranging from the oil-price slump to the glut of imported steel have forced giant banking and steel corporations to make dramatic adjustments to survive. Unfortunately, not all of them are going to make it. That became painfully clear last week, when the strains of economic change finally caught up with several companies...
...Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men. So too, when the state of nature is disordered, do they often portend the same upset in the nature of the state. It therefore seemed a distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept...
...from Rome and Naples, who exhorted the crowd with a more plain-spoken vision of citizenship: "Take a real good look at each other. What do you see? You see people of all races, all colors, all creeds. What do we do in America when we meet people? We shake hands. C'mon, shake hands! When you've shaken hands, you can say that you are real Americans...
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week announced a complete reorganization of his Cabinet. Six ministers were removed, eight were added, and more than a dozen portfolios changed hands. Opposition leaders interpreted the shake-up as a response to public-opinion polls indicating that support for Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party has dropped dramatically since the 1984 general election...
...ranks. That reputation abruptly changed last week when Radio Hanoi announced that eight Cabinet ministers in the Pham Van Dong government, which has been in power since the unification of North and South Viet Nam in 1976, had been either fired or reassigned. It was the biggest government shake-up in Hanoi since the Communists came to power in North Viet...