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...crack in party solidarity so alarmed the Kremlin that it called an emergency session of the Central Committee to address the threat. Party conservatives demanded a tough response to discourage other communist parties from seceding. After two days of bitter but inconclusive debate, the plenum was temporarily suspended until Gorbachev returned from a visit to Lithuania to make a personal appeal to party leaders...
American troops and Rumanian tanks share a mission to depose two brutal dictators, but both leave behind the painful task of rebuilding a nation from the wreckage. -- Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are summarily executed, and a self-appointed National Salvation Front takes charge of the country. But the shape of the new order is far from clear. -- In Timisoara, cradle of the revolution, people ricochet between agony and elation, fear and hope. -- Panama's strongman has fallen, but Manuel Noriega takes refuge in the papal embassy, sending Washington and the Vatican into diplomatic deadlock. -- As a military operation...
...large crop in Brazil and normal production in California and Mexico, which escaped the freeze. Nonetheless, traders on the New York Cotton Exchange last week drove the price of a futures contract for January delivery of frozen orange-juice concentrate to $1.61 per lb., up more than 25% in two weeks...
...production was severely impaired when a Dec. 24 explosion damaged the second largest refinery in the country, an Exxon plant in Baton Rouge, La., that normally processes 455,000 bbl. of crude a day. The accident, probably caused by a spark that ignited hydrocarbons released from a pipe, killed two workers and injured seven others. Company officials announced that the facility will partly reopen this week. Other installations also suffered shutdowns: Shell Oil closed two gasoline refineries in Texas and Louisiana and curtailed operations at an Illinois plant because of frozen equipment. Some facilities were operating at about half capacity...
Finally, there was considerable property damage -- about $300 million in Texas alone, where insulating home water pipes is seldom the uppermost thought on a homeowner's mind. Plumbers, not surprisingly, finished the year working overtime. Coming on the heels of two hurricanes as well as several floods and hailstorms, the frigid interlude signaled that home-insurance rates in the Lone Star State are likely...