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...avert damage to the state economy, Arizona Governor Rose Mofford is suggesting that the legislature consider approving a King holiday. Backers are trying to organize another referendum; opponents vow they will start recall drives against legislators who vote pro-holiday. Meanwhile former Governor Evan Mecham, the man who rescinded the King holiday three years ago, has begun a boisterous fund-raising drive to keep the state calendar King-free...
Efforts are already under way to start another black bank in Harlem. The names being considered include Freedom II and Freedom...
...just as popular in Japan (whence came the bulk of the musical's financing). Says Clavell: "It's got a love story and, obviously, opportunities for high adventure. In production values it should compare quite favorably with Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera." So he financed the start-up and even now remains a principal investor. He explains, "My attitude, and my wife's attitude, has been that we don't gamble in the stock market or anything, we gamble...
...companies, from IBM to Germany's Daimler-Benz to Japan's Sony, are investing heavily to come up with the next breakthroughs. Advanced-material sales, which will top $2 billion this year, are expected to reach $20 billion by the year 2000 as research efforts of the past decade start paying big dividends in the form of new products...
...true! All too probably, those who make this argument are deluding themselves. Far more likely, if Iraq is still occupying Kuwait next Aug. 2, a year after the invasion, much of the world will conclude that Saddam has won. The embargo will begin leaking badly; nation after nation will start casting around for a diplomatic solution; Washington itself will be under growing pressure to bring G.I.s home from Saudi Arabia where they will have been "sitting around in the sand for a year accomplishing nothing." A formula will be found to let Iraq keep part of Kuwait. Curtains...