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Dates: during 1990-1990
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BOSTON--Legislative negotiators unveiled a $13.7 billion budget yesterday that lawmakers said would fundamentally change state government even though the spending plan would still be in the red before it goes to the governor...
Tapie made his first million dollars by the age of 39, and in 1985 Groupe Tapie had revenues of $1 billion. By the following year, it was operating 116 factories in 28 countries. Recently, though, he has been selling assets and trimmed sales to $180 million. If Tapie succeeds in acquiring Adidas, it will put him at the head of one of the world's leading makers of sporting goods. His group's holdings in the past included the company that makes Look ski bindings, and he still retains ownership of Belgium's Donnay tennis rackets, which has fallen...
...Though a division into rival trading zones would pose a threat to future U.S. economic expansion, Bush implicitly seemed to accept Thatcher's analysis. He noted that the U.S. could no more dictate what West Germany does to help Moscow than Bonn, London or Paris could dictate Washington's policy in Latin America. "I don't feel that everybody has to march in lockstep," Bush said. "We're dealing with entirely different times...
...Though the U.S. remains first among the industrial powers, its pre-eminence is slipping. Until recently, says a White House official, "we used to be able to precook these summit agreements" among the "Sherpas" who prepare the agendas for the heads of governments. These days, however, "everything of importance has to be decided by the heads of state, so they're doing real negotiating on the spot. It's like an open political convention where everybody's trying to line up votes...
...East Germany's ousted communist government is also examining a suspected Libyan connection. A Palestinian involved in the bombing is reportedly imprisoned for other charges in West Berlin. The East Germans are said to have granted visas to a known Libyan hit man and his Palestinian accomplices even though they knew the Libyans planned a bombing...