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`` it has been something of a holy grail for astronomers to determine if the milky way is a barred spiral or a normal spiral galaxy , '' said blitz .


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in other galactic news , two other astronomers said thursday they have confirmed that the milky way and about 100 other galaxies are being pulled toward a powerful gravitational source called `` the great attractor '' over a region of space 100 million light years wide .


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this means that stars , clouds and dust obscures the view of most of the milky way .


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blitz and david spergel of princeton overcame this problem by examining the movement of hydrogen gas clouds in the outer regions of the milky way , an area called the galactic halo that surrounds the milky way like a globe .


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the milky way , once considered merely a typical example of a spiral galaxy , is now thought to be a much more exciting and interesting aggregation .


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and kelly laid on a milky way galaxy of stars and crescent moons in his stretch jersy numbers for evening .


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during the 1920s , carnegie astronomers edwin hubble and milton humason , using the hooker telescope , established that the `` spiral nebulae '' in the night sky were other galaxies , made up of billions of stars and located far outside the milky way , the galaxy that contains the earth .


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astronomers have spotted the most distant known star in the milky way , and say the accidental discovery could help determine the total mass of the galaxy .


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`` we do n't know the mass of the milky way , but if we can find objects that are far out and measure their speed , it will help us determine the galaxy 's total mass _ the visible areas and the dark areas. ''


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since the earth is about 30,000 light years from the center of the milky way , the discovery means the galaxy is larger than even more recent estimates indicated .


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other reports will address the discovery of what are believed to be twin quasars , large stellar objects that emit powerful light and radio waves ; a new theory that suggests the milky way galaxy , which includes the sun , may be shaped differently than previously believed ; and new findings on rapid movements of some galaxies that are close , in astronomical terms , to the milky way .


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like an immense gravitational magnet , a vast celestial structure nicknamed `` the great attractor '' is pulling powerfully at the milky way and more than 100 other galaxies , causing a dramatic distortion in the normal expansion of the nearby universe .


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their studies then showed that only galaxies on the same side as the milky way were being drawn toward the attractor .


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dressler said the structure stretches about 60 degrees across the earth 's view of the sky , reaching from superclusters of galaxies known as hydra and centaurus , through the plane of the milky way , to the superclusters pavo and indus .


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astrophysicists david helfand and thomas hamilton said they have found seven galaxies reasonably near the earth 's own milky way galaxy that are spewing out x-rays at a hotter rate than the so-called background x-rays detectable all over the universe .


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they surveyed galaxies in two opposite directions from the milky way galaxy , which includes earth .


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`` we usually work in a more distant part of the universe , and we pretty much assume that everything is already known about the vicinity of the milky way '' _ the galaxy around earth .


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the galaxy , named sextans after the constellation where it was found , is the smallest of the 10 satellite galaxies of the milky way , the astronomers said in telephone interviews .


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the dwarf , spherical galaxy is 100,000 times fainter than the milky way and can not be seen without a powerful telescope , they said .


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`` the sun is 30,000 light-years from the center of the milky way , and this particular galaxy is a factor of 10 farther out .


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the dwarf is in the milky way , the galaxy which includes the sun , and is about 68 light-years away , the astronomers said .


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the picture , which an official said was taken `` to prove to the public that the hubble is not broken , '' shows a galaxy 400 times more tightly packed with stars than the sun 's own milky way galaxy .


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`` we 've never been able to study any galaxy outside of our local group -lrb- two dozen galaxies near the milky way -rrb- at this resolution before , '' lauer said .


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after all , our own milky way galaxy contains an estimated 300bn-400bn stars .


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giant `` blobs '' of material have been discovered around a mysterious object near the center of the milky way galaxy , leading scientists to believe they may be getting their best look yet at one of the most baffling objects in the universe -- a black hole .


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they hope that additional study will unmask sagittarius a and prove it to be the long-sought but never seen black hole that scientists suspect lurks at the heart of the milky way galaxy .


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but he is confident that the research he presented wednesday goes a long way toward proving that a black hole does lie at the center of any galaxy , and in our own milky way , the most likely candidate is sagittarius a .


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now , in a handful of days , it makes its final rendezvous , a close brush and embrace with neptune , before flying out of the solar system to begin an odyssey through the milky way galaxy ; an unattended , lonely voyage that may last from millions to billions of years .


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the `` eclipsing millisecond pulsar , '' the massive remnant of an exploded sun , and its companion white dwarf star are located in terzan 5 , a globular star cluster near the center of the milky way galaxy at a distance of about 24,000 light years .


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astrophysicists had grown comfortable with the theory that the bursts -- 100,000 times as luminous as the sun but invisible to the eye because of their wavelength -- originated in explosions or `` starquakes '' on the surfaces of neutron stars within our own milky way galaxy .


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neutron theory flaws ; but if that theory were true , as recent observations using the soviet spacecraft granat seemed to confirm , the gamma ray observatory 's detector would have shown most of the bursts coming from the center of the milky way galaxy 's disk -- a flattened pinwheel of stars with earth and the solar system located toward the end of one of the arms .


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astrophysicists had grown comfortable with the theory that the bursts -- 100,000 times as luminous as the sun but invisible to the eye because of their wavelength -- originated in explosions or `` star quakes '' on the surfaces of neutron stars within our own milky way galaxy .


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but if that theory is true , as recent observations using the soviet spacecraft granat seem to confirm , the gamma ray observatory 's detector would have shown most of the bursts coming from the center of the milky way galaxy 's disk -- a flattened pinwheel of stars with earth and the solar system located toward the end of one of the arms .


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the unnamed planet is perhaps 12 times as massive as earth and orbits a dense neutron star not far from the center of the milky way galaxy , according to the british team that made the discovery .


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astronomers reported they have detected at least two planets orbiting a dense star in the milky way galaxy , raising the prospect that planetary systems may be more common than had been thought .


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it might be possible , he said , to use gravitational lenses _ areas in space in which gravity bends light in the same way that a magnifying glass does _ to see small , faint stars in the dark halo , if they exist .


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the problem of missing mass is one that extends across the entire universe , not only in the milky way , rees said , and the discovery of new particles in this invisible matter would have a payoff `` so colossal that the modest investment in such experiments seems more than justified , '' rees said in his prepared remarks .


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the disk-shaped milky way contains an estimated 100 billion stars clumped in spiraling arms that stretch across 100,000 light years , or about 588,000 trillion miles , of space .


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however , preston and arthur vaughn said the hooker telescope , at 5,700 feet altitude , remains an ideal tool for studying the sun and for detecting planets around stars in the milky way .


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`` we used to think that the majority of the mass of the milky way was stars , but now we suspect stars may only be 10 percent of all the mass , '' he said .


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andrew fraknoi , executive director of the astronomical society of the pacific in san francisco , said the discovery is important because it is another confirmation that the milky way is much larger than once thought .


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the milky way was once thought to be only about 100,000 lights year across .


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`` it was just dumb luck that this star was in the way of what they were looking at .


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the star is an isolated member of an immense but thinly populated halo of old , faint stars surrounding the milky way .


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measurements , he said , have determined that the great attractor is about 500 million light years across and that the center of the structure is about 150 million light years away from the milky way , which is the home of the sun and the earth .


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`` they may be a key link in being able to study the evolution of galaxies. ''


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the milky way , for example , resides between two clumps in about the middle of the overall series the researchers observed , koo said .


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the nearer ones are not so easy to see because the bright background of the milky way blurs the picture. ''


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naturally , the launch of nasa 's seti programme will prove a lodestar for jesters , cynics and two-bit comedians , the banality of whose jokes - 'i was on my way to venus when all of a sudden .


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to quote nasa : 'one direct way of testing whether intelligent life exists beyond our solar system is to search for an artificially generated radio signal coming from interstellar space .


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'one way in which the announcement could be made is described in a declaration of principles concerning activities following the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence . '


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and - for the record - yes , klein does expect that one day earth will detect an intelligent signal from somewhere in the milky way .


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the scientists , who are at the forefront in the search for a black hole at the center of the milky way , have been alloted time on an even larger radio telescope , called the very large baseline array , which is under construction in new mexico .


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it has been on its way from earth since 1977 , wending a crooked path through the outer solar system .


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there 's something wonderful about the thought that a piece of ourselves is somewhere out there on a winding journey between the stars on its way to eternity .


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the vote cleared the way for the lawmakers ' formal adoption today of the plan , which would slash spending by 60 % .


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one group is in the manguinhos slum , or `` favela '' in portuguese , brazil 's language .


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written below in big letters is : `` respeite o turista , '' or `` respect the tourist '' in portuguese , brazil 's language .


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the evironmental situation in the wetlands would be worse were it not for the `` pantaneiros , '' as the wetlands ' natives are called in brazil 's portuguese language .


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chiefs kube -i and paulinho paiakan , wearing native headdresses and collars and jungle body paint , addressed their u.s. hosts in portuguese , brazil 's official language , and posey translated .


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in brazil , where the national language is portuguese , president jose sarney has written collections of poetry and short stories , some of which have been translated into english , spanish , french and russian .


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portuguese is not an official language of the united nations , but the countries that use it _ angola , brazil , cape verde , guinea - bissau , mozambique , portugal and sao tome e principe _ count about 180 million inhabitants .


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all the chiefs spoke in portuguese , brazil 's national language , sometimes with accents and imperfect grammar .


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the u.n. development program hopes to bring 24 doctors and paramedics to angola in the next 18 months , mostly from brazil , where portuguese also is the national language .


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they have something in common with brazil , their language -- portuguese .


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language : speaking spanish - or portuguese , in the case of brazil - is naturally a particular advantage , though not an absolute necessity in the case of those with a grasp of english , as english is much more widely understood and used , certainly in a business context , where many top-notch personnel will have spent a period of study in the us .


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ripoffs and muggings of foreign tourists are giving rio an image problem , and the government _ discreetly _ is trying to persuaded `` gringos '' to skip this famous city and visit other parts of vast brazil .


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`` there 's only one trouble spot for tourists in brazil , and that 's rio de janeiro , '' joao doria jr. , president of embratur , the federal government tourist board , told the ap .


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many foreigners do n't realize that brazil is bigger in area than the 48 contiguous united states , and tropical beach cities such as recife and natal at the country 's northeastern tip and the amazon jungle gateway of manaus are thousands of miles closer to the northern hemisphere than rio is .


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brazil 's varig airlines has a daily nonstop run from miami to rio .


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despite its climate , scenery , music and cheap currency , brazil attracts just 1 percent of world tourism .


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`` because brazil is a poor country , surrounded by poor countries , in the far-off southern hemisphere , it will never compete with places such as mexico , spain and italy for international tourism , '' doria said .


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but brazil 's own typical latin bureaucracy often gets in the way of tourism objectives .


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`` five years ago , no charter flights were permitted in brazil .


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brazil 's foreign relations ministry often makes foreign tourists obtain a visa before they can come to brazil .


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the standard is reciprocity : if a foreign country requires a visa for brazilians , then citizens of that country must get a visa for brazil .


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`` take the case of canada , which recently instituted visas for brazil , because some brazilian tourists were caught working there illegally .


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so now canadians need visas to visit brazil .


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but i ca n't imagine many canadians seeking to work illegally in brazil . ''


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taxi drivers quote prices in gold instead of in brazil 's weak cruzado currency .


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much of that reportedly was smuggled out of brazil and never appeared on official registers , according to the environmental agency .


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brazil 's environmental laws severely restrict the use of mercury , but in the remote pantanal the laws are widely ignored .


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the pantaneiros also help protect macaws , sapphire-colored tropical parrots with yellow-ringed eyes , which often fetch $ 10,000 apiece overseas and which by law ca n't be killed or exported from brazil .


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douglas trent , an american tourist agent now living in brazil , says `` rational , sustainable '' tourism can help save the pantanal by increasing international awareness of the region .


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an american tropical insect expert faces a possible prison term in brazil for backing native indians trying to stop the building of hydroelectric dams that could flood their tribal lands in the amazon .


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from the university of georgia , has been charged by brazil 's federal police under a law that prohibits foreigners from `` getting involved in internal brazilian affairs '' and `` denigrating the country 's image. ''


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and , under the threat of dismissal from his brazilian government job as a professor -level researcher for the national research council , posey is barred from leaving brazil .


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brazil traditionally has eyed the vast hydroelectric potential of the amazon as a way to expand its already sophisticated industrial base , situated mostly in the southern part of the country .


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in an inexplicable move , the government also indicted the indians , who were born in brazil and never had been out of the country before , for violating the foreigners law .


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brazil had intended to ask the world bank to finance it .


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more importantly , they charge pinheiro hurt portugal at a time when its influence among former colonies is increasingly being challenged by one of them _ brazil .


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while deus pinheiro has been busy drumming up international financial support for an economic recovery plan for the other major portuguese-speaking countries of angola and mozambique , brazil has outflanked portugal on trade and relief efforts .


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trade between angola and brazil has quadrupled the last three years to more than $ 1 billion .


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deus pinheiro 's recovery plan foresees $ 600 million dollars worth of aid from several nations to angola , but brazil has already granted luanda a $ 1.1 billion credit that the african nation repays in oil it produces .


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brazil already sells food , cars , and farm machinery to the southern african nation and is helping to build a hydroelectric dam there .


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`` we have to push our mutual language at an international level. ''


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`` the importance of this language should be turned into a diplomatic tool _and we -lrb- portugal -rrb- do n't have many others , '' said jorge sampaio , newly elected leader of portugal 's main opposition socialist party .


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brazil has about 220,000 indians in a total population of 144 million .


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brazil has approached the world bank about partial financing .


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in brazil , three of the 22 candidates for president in the first round of elections nov. 15 were of lebanese descent , including paulo salim maluf , former mayor of sao paulo .


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today , 15 million people of arab descent live in latin america , according to the arab american federation , which is based in sao paulo , brazil , and has branches in 22 countries .


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brazil has the most at 8 million , with argentina next at 2 million , chacra said .


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monsour challita , director of the gibran international cultural center in rio de janeiro , brazil , and former ambassador of the league of arab states , said , `` the lebanese found for the first time a country they could count on to protect them , and a friendly hospitable people . ''


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many descendants , including menem , were baptized as roman catholics , the dominant religion in the region , and assimilated so completely they do not speak or write the language of their parents .


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in brazil , haddad became ferreira -lrb- both mean `` smith '' in their languages -rrb- , zaituni became oliveira -lrb- both mean `` olive '' or `` olive tree '' -rrb- .


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police in brazil are looking for naji nahas , a billionaire investor who vanished in august after being indicted in connection with a stock market scandal .


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portugal , its former african colonies - cape verde , angola , mozambique , guinea - bissau and sao tome e principe - and brazil hope the controversial accord they signed sunday will create a unified market for portuguese-language books and movies .


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they all have come out , and even brazil recently came out very clearly in favor of east timor and in favor of its self-determination .


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-lsb- soares -rsb- precisely , what i want is a joint plan by portugal and brazil to help our african brothers , who are in a bad situation but will be great nations in the future .


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brasilia -- the cuban government will sell brazil $ 30 million in generic medicines that will arrive in the country between 30 and 60 days .


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this commercial agreement will be used to pay part of the cuban debt with brazil , which totals $ 48 million .


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this was reported by cuban vice president carlos lage d'avila , who is visiting brazil to negotiate investment strategies in the country .


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lage stated that cuba is able to supply several medicines to brazil at good prices .


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he said cuba can sell brazil generic medicines , like antibiotics and anesthetics .


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`` we are aware this issue is being thoroughly discussed in brazil but i would like to remind everyone that we are the scientific proof of the vaccine 's effectiveness . ''


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based on this common feature , the foreign ministers from seven countries are discussing the formation of a community of portuguese- speaking countries to exchange technology and cooperation in the cultural , social , and economic areas and reach political agreements .


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-lsb- end recording -rsb- brazilian ambassador to portugal jose aparecido de oliveira , one of the architects of the community of portuguese-speaking countries , said it already was time for the idea to materialize and used the occasion to ask for the foreigners ' support for proposing sociologist herbert de souza , nicknamed betinho , as a candidate for the nobel peace prize .


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the portuguese-speaking countries community probably will be created before july .


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he added that it will not prevent them from participating in other groups : -lsb- begin recording -rsb- brazil , for example , which is currently a un security council member , has been acting in coordination with other countries .


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the african portuguese-speaking countries are oau members .


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-lsb- end recording -rsb- the community of portuguese-speaking countries will be comprised of more than 200 million people spread over three continents .


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army minister zenildo zoroastro has ruled out any possibility of a coup in brazil .


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there is no risk of fujimorization in brazil , the minister said , noting that president itamar franco has already said everything that had to be said on the subject .


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during the fifth common market of the south -lsb- mercosur -rsb- summit in colonia del sacramento , uruguay , president itamar franco stressed that this year mercosur will have to define a foreign tariff and the common trade policy that will be pursued .


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in his speech , president itamar franco emphasized that brazil does not assign an exclusive priority to mercosur and confirmed his favorable stance for enhancement and joint efforts toward integration with the andean group and amazon initiative countries .


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president itamar franco emphasized the democratic maturity of brazil , argentina , uruguay , and paraguay as a factor required for the success of south america 's integration .


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currency : most latin american countries - brazil is an exception - have reined-in the rampant inflation of the 1980s , though whether it is simply a case of having trapped the devil in a jam -jar is yet to be seen .


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the evironmental situation in the wetlands would be worse were it not for the `` pantaneiros , '' as the wetlands ' natives are called in brazil 's portuguese language .


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taxi drivers quote prices in gold instead of in brazil 's weak cruzado currency .


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much of that reportedly was smuggled out of brazil and never appeared on official registers , according to the environmental agency .


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brazil 's environmental laws severely restrict the use of mercury , but in the remote pantanal the laws are widely ignored .


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the pantaneiros also help protect macaws , sapphire-colored tropical parrots with yellow-ringed eyes , which often fetch $ 10,000 apiece overseas and which by law ca n't be killed or exported from brazil .


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douglas trent , an american tourist agent now living in brazil , says `` rational , sustainable '' tourism can help save the pantanal by increasing international awareness of the region .


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the `` cruzeiro '' is brazil 's fourth currency in as many years .


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only then will the new real come into circulation , substituting for the urv , ending the real cruzeiro , and it will be the new currency of a brazil without inflation .


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argentina has fixed its exchange rate against the dollar , which has led to a real appreciation of its currency , while brazil is devaluing the cruzeiro in line with its inflation rate .


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once the unit is widely in use , it will become a full currency called the real and will be linked to brazil 's dollars 32bn foreign exchange reserves to give it credibility .


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brazil yesterday unveiled details of its plan to replace the currency , the cruzeiro real , which is plagued by annual inflation of about 2,500 per cent .


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brazil is next week expected to announce the first steps towards a new currency to replace the inflation-plagued cruzeiro real .


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brazil 's government plans to increase minimum wages by nearly 8 per cent from september , in a move that could undermine efforts to beat inflation through the real currency , due to be launched on friday .


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in an effort to cut inflation from around 50 per cent a month , brazil intends to link the real at parity with the us dollar and limit the amount of the new currency to be issued .


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brazil 's new currency , the real , has sent inflation tumbling and public support soaring .


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mr antonio delfim netto , an economic commentator and former planning minister , says inflation will stay low for about six months but he does not believe the real is the 'strong ' currency brazil has been promised .


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from midnight last night , all bank accounts in brazil were switched electronically from cruzeiro real to the real -lrb- rdollars -rrb- , the new currency which the country 's monetary masters hope will wipe out an inflation rate of 50 per cent a month .


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mr cardoso 's extraordinary rise in the polls , from about 20 per cent in june to more than double that figure today , would not have been possible without the real , brazil 's new currency launched on july 1 .


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both trends have accelerated this year following the launch in july of brazil 's new currency , the real .


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such monthly increases were common before the introduction , on july 1 , of brazil 's new currency , the real , under the anti-inflation plan .


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during the interview mr ricupero suggested he , and the government , were using brazil 's latest anti-inflation plan and its main component , a new currency , the real , to help mr cardoso win votes .


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brazil , a market of 150m and argentina 's largest trading partner , is witnessing a 'vigorous recovery of demand ' , thanks to the initial success of the real currency plan , says mr domingo cavallo , argentine economy minister .


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the choice of mr malan suggests the economic team which oversaw this year 's launch of brazil 's new currency , the real , will remain largely intact , although in different posts , following the change of government .


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to distinguish between frozen funds and circulating money , the government changed the name of brazil 's currency from novo cruzado back to cruzeiro , the name it had until 1986 .


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brazil and argentina , the ailing giants of south america , are trying to salvage their crumbling economies by starting a common market modeled after europe and the united states .


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either we work out a joint strategy in line with our development needs , or we will be the objects of outside strategies , '' argentine president carlos menem told brazil 's congress during a three-day visit in august .


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burdened by stagnant growth , four-digit inflation and a combined foreign debt of some $ 170 billion , brazil and argentina have knocked down some trade barriers and recently agreed to boost trade and cooperation to unprecedented levels .


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tiny uruguay , which borders the two giants , recently joined brazil and argentina in the common market scheme .


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`` the brazil - argentina accords have become a spotlight for other countries to follow. ''


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`` integration is fundamental , '' fernando collor de mello , brazil 's leading presidential candidate , said recently .


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nations such as venezuela , chile , brazil and argentina are no longer as dependent on foreign technology as they were 30 years ago .


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the current economic woes of argentina and brazil have left those countries without the funds needed to support and finance a continent-wide market , said economist carlos alberto primo braga , a visiting professor at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies .


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even brazil , which boasts the world 's eighth biggest economy and the third largest trade surplus , spends most of its export earnings to pay interest on its $ 110 billion foreign debt , the third world 's largest .


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to cope with the `` funny money '' problem , brazil and argentina have a $ 500 million reciprocal credit agreement under which they import and export each others ' products without the use of currency .


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indeed , since south america 's two largest trading partners announced their common market plans in 1985 , brazil has run up a $ 500 million trade surplus with argentina .


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brazil in august agreed to accept up to $ 350 million worth of argentine -financed projects for transportation , hospital construction and hydroelectric equipment .


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he is brazil 's first popularly elected leader in 29 years .


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brazil has the developing world 's largest foreign debt , $ 114 billion .


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tv globo , brazil 's largest commercial network , reported the salary and price hikes would be 40 percent in april and 20 percent in may .


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firings of large numbers of brazil 's 700,000 federal employees .


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collor de mello also said he wanted to integrate brazil 's economy into the world market , eliminate import restrictions and bring foreign capital to the country .


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he replaced jose sarney , who took office in an electoral college vote set up by the right-wing military regime that ruled brazil between 1964 and 1985 .


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malan clearly stated that the change of currency will not take place before april .


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-lsb- begin malan recording -rsb- brazil and the committee of banks have issued a communique addressed to the international financial community , which states that we still plan on 15 april .


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-lsb- end recording -rsb- pedro malan confirmed that minister fernando henrique cardoso 's economic plan , technically speaking , was approved by the imf mission that visit brazil recently .


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instead of only changing the name of the currency we will change the currency itself .


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the new currency will come when the urv finishes its work .


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it will be a strong currency , like that of the developed countries ; a currency that is valuable because inflation will be low , the economy will work , and salaries will have purchasing power .


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we now have a great chance , perhaps a unique chance to end an inflation that is destroying brazil .


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but let us be honest -- right now that kind of increase would be unrealistic , because it would further fuel inflation .


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and the worst socioeconomic problem in brazil today is inflation .


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brazil intends to buy an annual dollars 500m -lrb- pounds 328.9m -rrb- of oil from argentina , in an attempt to defuse tension surrounding a growing trade surplus with its neighbour , brazilian officials indicated yesterday .


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brazil 's trade surplus with argentina reached about dollars 1.4bn last year , with brazil 's exports worth just over dollars 3bn .


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the weakness of brazil 's economy , which showed almost no growth last year , has forced manufacturers to look increasingly towards exports .


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brazil is willing to sign an investment protection agreement with the uk , mr fernando henrique cardoso , the brazilian foreign minister , indicated to british officials in london yesterday .


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the details of a proposed accord , which may be the first of its kind to be signed by brazil , are being examined by the uk government .


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for mr roberto macedo , former economic policy secretary , brazil 's latest financial stabilisation effort , under way since december , involves more than bringing down inflation .


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brazil 's rapidly devaluing currency is the most visible symbol of the country 's economic troubles .


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mr fernando henrique cardoso , finance minister , on monday announced the creation of an accounting unit called the urv , which is expected to form the basis of a new and theoretically inflation-free currency in a couple of months .


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'over the last few months brazil has started to realise high inflation can not continue .


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brazil 's inflation has two main motors .


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second , and mainly in response to the first motor , brazil created a sophisticated financial system .


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mr macedo agreed : discipline in the new currency is the most difficult thing .


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more worryingly , brazil 's erratic president , mr itamar franco , is thought to be unhappy with the minimum monthly wage of dollars 65 and wants a substantial increase by the end of the year .


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this is part of an overall economic restructuring programme for brazil , the only large south american economy still grappling with near hyper-inflation .


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once people realise the urv is stable , expectations of inflation will wither .


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the move is part of an economic stabilisation plan launched by mr fernando henrique cardoso , the finance minister , aimed at tackling brazil 's annual inflation of about 2,500 per cent .


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brazil uses several indices to adjust prices and salaries regularly for inflation .


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but the president 's agreement to the increase will add to pressure from brazil 's military , who are pushing hard for a big pay rise this year .


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the rise will also affect brazil 's social security system , which uses the minimum wage as a benchmark for benefits and pensions .


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meanwhile , economists said frost in southern brazil since the weekend would have a limited effect on domestic food prices .


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brazil has halted all new coffee exports indefinitely and cancelled contracts agreed upon since the weekend after the worst frost in more than a decade damaged 15 to 30 per cent of next year 's coffee crop .


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banks were the main beneficiaries of brazil 's years of high inflation .


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according to private bankers , the hope for long-term reform lies with brazil 's new president , likely to be mr fernando henrique cardoso .


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but he will encounter stiff opposition from state governors and the banks themselves , which argue that in a country like brazil , state banks also serve as development agencies and should not aim to emulate the private sector .


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new currencies , and their rapid demise , are common in brazil .


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'this currency is so 'strong ' that ever since we announced its link to the us dollar , the dollar has been falling against the yen , ' he said sarcastically .


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'there has never been such a replacement of money in the history of the planet , ' said mr alcir augustinho caliari , president of bank of brazil .


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the old currency will continue to be legal tender for two weeks , at a set exchange rate of rdollars 1 = crdollars 2,750 , while the dollars 3bn or so of outstanding notes and coins are swapped into reals .


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it is not the first time brazil has changed its currency .


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this time a completely new currency regime is being introduced .


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contracts covering everything from housing rents to school fees , which previously had to be corrected regularly to keep pace with inflation , are being transferred into reals based on average prices over the last four months .


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but most shop prices will be switched into the new currency from today .


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the supply of the new currency will also be limited , to rdollars 9.5bn between now and april , a slightly higher limit than expected .


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president franco is thought to have vetoed original plans to boost the autonomy of the central bank and strengthen its role in the national monetary council , brazil 's chief financial authority , because of this dispute over interest rates .


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the claim seemed to gain weight when mr rubens ricupero was forced to resign as brazil 's finance minister earlier this month after remarks he made in a private interview were broadcast by mistake .


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mr cardoso planned the new currency when he was finance minister before mr ricupero .


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mr cardoso has also benefited from the optimism which has swept brazil since the currency 's launch .


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novelas are extremely popular in brazil and play an important political role .


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called 'minha patria ' or 'my country ' , it is an upbeat tale of success and love in a brazil with a future .


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this is in sharp contrast to the highly critical vision of brazil which globo ran ahead of the 1989 elections , when its candidate , mr collor , was campaigning for change .


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according to some estimates , nine families - of which mr marinho 's is the most important - own 68 of brazil 's 71 tv concessions .


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it is sometimes tempting to imagine , sitting amid the opulence and consumerism of central sao paulo , that brazil is a developed country .


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but these contrasts , the result of rapid urbanisation and one of the world 's worst income disparities , are so common in brazil that it is easy to become immune to their implications .


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the state accounts for just under 40 per cent of brazil 's output , suggesting sao paulo 's economy is slightly larger than turkey 's but slightly smaller than belgium 's .


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its companies are among the most dynamic in latin america and nearly half brazil 's biggest 50 private companies have their head offices in the state .


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sao paulo is home to four of brazil 's five biggest private banks , and its stock exchange accounts for more than 90 per cent of trading in brazilian shares .


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despite these impressive numbers , sao paulo has had a tough few years as brazil 's overall economic crisis mounted .


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sao paulo is also one of only a few states in brazil to have enough school places for all its children , although there are complaints about the quality and wages of its teachers .


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the main unions in brazil 's vehicle industry went on strike yesterday for an immediate pay rise , in the first serious threat to a wage freeze introduced under the government 's anti-inflation plan , writes angus foster in rio de janeiro .


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autolatina , brazil 's biggest carmaker and a joint venture of volkswagen and ford , said production had 'almost totally stopped ' .


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union leaders argue that official inflation indices show an 11.9 per cent increase since the new currency was launched .


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mr fernando henrique cardoso , brazil 's former finance minister who left the government in april to contest next month 's presidential elections , was hoping a quiet september would help consolidate his lead in opinion polls .


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the currency is part of an economic package which has been praised by economists for its emphasis on spending restraint and a balanced budget , rather than political objectives .


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since the new currency was introduced on july 1 , the monthly inflation rate has fallen from 50 per cent to about 5 per cent .


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inflation figures are important in brazil because until july they were used regularly - usually each month - to adjust salaries , taxes and prices to keep pace with inflation .


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the danger of mr ricupero 's comments is that if they undermine the credibility of the inflation indices , the private sector will reintroduce regular adjustments , and brazil 's inflationary cycle could start again .


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under brazil 's election rules , a candidate can win outright in the first round only if he or she attracts more votes than all their competitors combined .


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mr fernando henrique cardoso , likely to be brazil 's next president , is a former left-wing professor turned politician who has moved steadily towards the right in the last 10 years .


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his understanding of brazil 's social problems will be important because the country has one of the biggest gaps between rich and poor with millions living in shanty towns , often without health and education services .


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his links with the left led to trouble with brazil 's military rulers in the 1970s and he was banned from teaching at the university of sao paulo .


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when democracy returned to brazil in 1985 , mr cardoso switched to politics and was elected a senator for sao paulo in 1986 .


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in may last year , against his instincts and the advice of friends who thought the job a poisoned chalice , he was persuaded by president franco to become brazil 's fourth finance minister in less than a year .


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it was this that won mr cardoso the election , helped by an alliance with the right-wing liberal front -lrb- pfl -rrb- party that delivered him votes in brazil 's poor north-east .


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the alliance was unpopular with some of mr cardoso 's supporters because the pfl is controlled by the same old-style politicians mr cardoso used to criticise and blame for brazil 's social problems .


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mr cardoso says he is a social democrat and bridles when described as a 'neo- liberal ' who expects market forces to solve brazil 's problems .


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economists agree such changes are needed as brazil modernises its economy and government .


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they say that the fact that it is a former left-wing sociologist proposing the reforms shows there is now a consensus in brazil for a smaller , more efficient state in a market economy , in line with other countries in the region .


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the jitters afflicting currency and share markets have yet to undermine argentine confidence that the most important economic event in the near view is mercosur - the customs union that will from sunday weld argentina 's market to that of brazil , as well as to those of paraguay and uruguay .


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'the macro-economic asymmetry -lrb- with brazil -rrb- has completely changed , ' he says .


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when mercosur was born in 1991 , brazil was in near-hyperinflationary recession while argentine consumer demand was booming , the minister says .


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alpha expects that , in 1995 , argentine exports to brazil will leap by dollars 1.4bn to about dollars 4.2bn , and that argentina 's trade deficit with its giant northern neighbour - this year expected to be dollars 1.1bn - will be wiped out .


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in 1996 , alpha says , exports to brazil will surge again , to dollars 6.1bn .


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mr devoto says that brazil today is experiencing what happened in argentina in 1991 when the destruction of hyperinflation unleashed pent-up consumer demand .


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argentina , which has tried to encourage its dilapidated industry to re-equip with modern machinery , must now bow to the demands of mercosur 's common external tariff , in particular to the wishes of brazil .


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because brazil wants to protect its own capital goods industry , argentina has been forced to agree to a gradual increase of tariffs on such items to 14 per cent by 2001 .


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cargill , the multinational commodity trader with important operations in brazil and paraguay -lrb- in argentina , too , where it is the biggest food exporter -rrb- , is 'already evaluating ways of exploiting the synergies , ' according to mr hugo krajnc , public affairs manager .


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he believes , however , that traditional wisdom , which regards argentina as naturally strong in the food sector and brazil as the obvious regional centre for mass-produced consumer items , may be flawed .


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'all this integration is definitely likely to reallocate industry , ' says mr krajnc at cargill .


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argentine exports to brazil millions of usdollars


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mr fernando henrique cardoso , brazil 's president-elect , has chosen central bank governor mr pedro malan to become finance minister when he takes office on january 1 .


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before taking over the central bank , mr malan was brazil 's foreign debt negotiator and oversaw much of the detailed discussion for this year 's dollars 49bn foreign debt restructuring .


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the newspaper o estado de sao paulo said supermarket sales monday in brazil 's largest city were 30 % to 40 % below normal levels .


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federal police and other government agents monitored stores tuesday throughout brazil , enforcing an official price list .


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however , it will have to overcome widespread skepticism and hostility within brazil .


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i do n't think the international monetary fund would have asked for much more at this point , '' said a senior u.s. official in brazil .


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after a long vacuum in economic policy , the plan is expected to provide the basis for negotiations within the next few weeks on brazil 's four-month-old moratorium on $ 67 billion of commercial-bank debt .


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according to u.s. sources , it also should provide brazil with breathing space in its negotiations with the paris club , a group of western creditor governments .


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a six-month respite on payments of $ 975 million in principal and interest -- negotiated as part of an agreement with the paris club last january -- is about to expire , and brazil is seeking a further delay .


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with the imf now expected to produce a favorable report on brazil following a visit by a mission last month , this concession could be granted , the sources said .


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but the plan faces skepticism and opposition in brazil .


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juries in the nine-month 1970-71 trial of manson and the three `` manson girls '' and in watson 's separate trial asked for vengeance in condemning them to death for first -degree murder and conspiracy .


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like the assassination of president john f. kennedy , the bloody slayings -- examined in gruesome detail during the sensational , 9 1/2-month trial of charles manson and three of his `` girls `` -- occupy a place in the nation 's consciousness , although more have died in mass murders since .


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on that first night -- warm , muggy aug. 9 , 1969 -- manson followers susan atkins , 21 ; patricia krenwinkel , 21 , and charles -lrb- tex -rrb- watson , 23 , invaded the benedict canyon home leased by tate and her husband , film director roman polanski , and killed the 27-year-old actress , who was 8 1/2 months pregnant .


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he has a few minutes to arrange his papers for the latest in nearly 20 years of confrontations with charles milles manson , mastermind of the peculiarly unforgettable mass murders that badly rattled california in august of 1969 .


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manson , led from his single cell in san quentin 's security housing unit , has waived his right to an attorney .


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he is long past trying to ingratiate himself with the three -man board of prison terms panel that will decide whether to grant him a future parole date .


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manson reaches the door behind which the hearing officers and kay wait with two `` pool `` reporters and two television cameras .


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new american library late this year is publishing an updated edition of ed sanders ' 1972 book , `` the family : the story of charles manson 's dune buggy attack battalion . ''


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at the vacaville facility in 1981 , manson warned kay that he would be killed in the parking lot after the hearing .


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at manson 's 1986 evaluation , kay asked why manson spends hours in his cell constructing scorpions out of thread from his socks .


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manson , the razor-sliced swastika in his forehead emphasized in blue-black ink , took the bait .


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`` from the world of darkness i did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment , '' he announced .


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this year , a moment before he is to enter the hearing room , manson abruptly decides that he is having none of this legally mandated but manifestly futile ritual .


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with manson in absentia for the third time in his nine hearings , stephen kay , a 22-year veteran at the d.a. 's


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kay has been making these arguments for 11 years , ever since manson , susan -lrb- sadie mae glutz -rrb- atkins , charles -lrb- tex -rrb- watson , patricia -lrb- katie -rrb- krenwinkel and leslie van houten first became eligible for parole .


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the trial was a combination of fascination and revulsion , like a snake with its tail in its mouth .


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sharon tate was 26 , a classically beautiful but not quite top-rank movie actress eight and a half months pregnant , when a dark-clad band on a mission from manson invaded the benedict canyon estate she and her film-director husband , roman polanski , were renting .


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a previous tenant there , terry melcher , the record- producer son of actress doris day , had snubbed manson and his musical ambitions a year earlier .


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the following night , after the sensational celebrity murders failed to trigger the black-white race war manson had prophesied from his dark reading of revelations and the beatles ' `` helter skelter `` during long group lsd sessions , manson himself entered the los feliz home of leno labianca , owner of a small supermarket chain .


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prominent as some of the victims were , manson immediately surpassed them in public interest .


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kay recalls , `` with his picture on the cover of life magazine -- that stare -- manson was like everybody 's freddy . ''


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here was a man , prefiguring jim jones in the guyana jungle , with the mysterious power to command others to kill for him , even to dispatch themselves to the gas chamber by taking all the blame at trial and attempting to exculpate the leader they sincerely regarded as both jesus and the devil .


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manson has effectively surrendered , but the others are fighting seriously for freedom , using skilled lawyers .


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the social rebellion of the '60s was carried to a horrible extreme in the depredations of manson and his dropout `` family `` of acid habituees .


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kay says he handled `` even more gruesome '' murder cases in 14 years as a trial prosecutor , notably the 1980-81 trial of lawrence bittaker , who with a companion taped the prolonged torture of one of five teen-age girls they kidnaped .


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kay considers manson 's murders worse , different in kind .


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of the eight manson `` family `` members convicted in the nine murders that law enforcement was able to establish , only one , steve -lrb- clem tufts -rrb- grogan , has been paroled .


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he profited from showing the authorities where shea 's previously undiscovered remains were buried near the spahn ranch , manson 's dusty chatsworth base .


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at san quentin , a month before manson is transferred to the new maximum-security corcoran facility in the san joaquin valley , kay 's argument runs 27 minutes .


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atkins , manson and 22 others coincidentally had been rounded up in mid-october at their death valley retreat and booked for unrelated arson and auto thefts .


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kay tells the board that manson has `` a serious and severe personality disorder , '' although the prison psychologist 's latest report maintained that manson `` is not psychotic and probably never was and never will be . ''


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`` mr. manson remains locked in an armageddon with society , '' he tells the somber commissioners , as if summing up to a jury hooked on tv courtroom drama .


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society has a slim advantage now because we have manson behind bars .


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manson is probably the best advertisement that california ever had for the death penalty , because , frankly , as long as mr. manson is alive , he is a great danger . ''


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minutes later , the board votes manson another three-year denial .


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as kay likes to point out in lectures around the state to explain why he keeps pushing when it seems implausible that manson will ever be freed , charlie does remain a role model of sorts to a fringe of satanists , neo-nazis and skinheads , just as adolf hitler remains a hero for him .


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manson gets a fair number of letters and gifts from young people who idolize him as the ultimate outsider .


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outside the prison gate during the hearing , two young san francisco men in black paramilitary uniforms , accompanied by three women , carry signs supporting manson .


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kay was a boyish 27 , three years out of berkeley 's boalt hall law school , when bugliosi was keeping him and donald musich on short leashes as his muffled assistants in the long first trial , its singsong craziness one of the strangest courtroom spectacles grown from the '60s .


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of all the figures in the story , only kay has stayed with the manson case -- unless , with some irony , one counts his elected boss since 1984 , district attorney ira reiner .


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as a private lawyer , reiner lobbied manson for a place on the high-profile defense team .


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reiner represented van houten for eight early months but proved too independent-minded for manson , who persuaded van houten to fire him .


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kay went on to prosecute bruce davis , an accomplice of manson and grogan , to a life sentence for the shea murder .


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reinforced by dino fulgoni , the office expert on the since-outlawed `` diminished capacity '' defense , kay recovered with a 1978 third- trial guilty verdict .


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when lynette -lrb- squeaky -rrb- fromme aimed a pistol at president ford in sacramento in 1975 , kay confidently told reporters that manson had ordered the assault -- a theory never established .


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notified within 90 minutes and fearing that fromme was heading west specifically to kill him out of devotion to manson , kay got himself what he calls `` added security '' until the prattling little redheaded woman was caught near the prison two days later .


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for the past seven months he has been one of two assistant directors supervising personnel assignments and policy decisions for the department 's branch offices in van nuys , santa monica , torrance , long beach , compton , beverly hills and inglewood .


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he prepares for the sessions as if there were an imminent prospect of the concededly shattered manson group reuniting for its predawn `` creepy-crawl '' missions .


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if kay respects any of these convicts , it is manson .


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`` manson 's just himself , '' he says .


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`` it 's an attempt by him to grab the limelight , '' says paul fitzgerald , who represented krenwinkel at trial and van houten at early parole hearings .


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consistently underestimated by the friends of leslie support group , kay has been trumping them in a long fight that he has smoothly escalated from the administrative arena of pine-paneled hearing rooms to the public forum of mass media appearances and nationwide petition drives .


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charles manson , born illegitimate in cincinnati , was placed by an uncaring mother with a series of foster parents .


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on parole , manson gravitated to san francisco 's pulsating haight-ashbury district .


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in contrast to manson and his raggedy gang of 25 hard-core members and 60 `` associates , '' stephen kay has never experienced anything but mainstream stability .


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-lrb- kay wanted to write a book on the bittaker trial with his mother , but unlike bugliosi he dropped his book idea , claiming that publishers demanded too much gore . -rrb-


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twelve years later sandy good was wearing an x on her forehead and kay was cross-examining her at the manson trial -- during which , he says , she and fromme cruised up on both sides of him and threatened `` to do to your house what was done to sharon tate 's house . ''


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not originally assigned to the manson trial , he read the start of linda kasabian 's hair-raising 17 days of turncoat testimony when he was in a northern california coffee shop on a vacation drive to canada .


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then , district attorney evelle younger kicked chief trial deputy aaron stovitz off the case for violating an order against news comments .


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`` little did i know when i got back from vacation , '' says kay , `` that in 1989 i 'd still be talking about this case . ''


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system of a luxury new york department store a few months after manson 's arrest .


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`` it captured everybody 's imagination in our generation , '' says krenwinkel 's trial lawyer paul fitzgerald , now 51 .


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`` average people do not believe there is the type of human being like manson , '' says musich .


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`` of course , '' he says , `` you ca n't close the book on the manson phenomenon without saying something about lsd .


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manson , says west , `` was one of many types of predators drawn to the essential defenselessness of these young and often idealistic people who were exceptionally vulnerable , anyway , and even more vulnerable because of their drug use . ''


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`` it could happen again , '' west recognizes , defining the manson group as a `` totalist cult . ''


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manson 's followers , says west , were enthralled by their leader 's race-war delusions not only because of impairment by drugs but because of the group 's twisted internal dynamics .


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still disagreeing that manson 's soldiers were infected with a dose of slavish obedience by one dominant man 's bizarre philosophizing , kay blames neither society nor the '60s in relying on his old courtroom argument for a conspiracy of equally hate-filled renegades .


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`` the manson clan , '' says kay , `` was a group of misfits that just came together kind of at the wrong place and the wrong time .


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you had hippie communes and peace marchers , but you never had the violence and lust for murder that were demonstrated by manson and the family . ''


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`` when sharon was begging for her life , '' she asks , `` what compassion did watson and susan atkins give to her ?


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after all this time , mention of the tate-la bianca case evokes in untold thousands the shocking memories of two nights of horror in los angeles 20 years ago when manson family cultists savagely murdered seven people , including beautiful , honey -blonde actress sharon tate .


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acting on manson 's orders again the next night , follower leslie van houten , 20 , joined watson and krenwinkel in the murder of grocery executive leno la bianca , 44 , and his wife , rosemary , 38 , in los feliz , a few miles away .


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did manson , who had spent nearly half his life in jail , really expect to fulfill his vision of armageddon -- based on the lyrics of a beatles song -- by starting a black-white race war , as suggested by his prosecutor , deputy dist .


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or , possibly manson 's own mental illness , as others have speculated ?


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those who knew him then say manson taught that all people are god , jesus christ and the devil -- part of a whole -- and as such , there is no right , no wrong , no good or bad , no barrier to action , and that death , time and pain are only concepts .


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but , according to others , life at the make-believe world of spahn movie ranch in the santa susana pass , where the manson family settled in late 1968 , was n't all that magical .


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manson handed out lsd , directed group sex and sent his followers to steal , later to kill .


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to retired superior court judge charles h. older , 71 , who presided at the trial , manson 's `` twisted philosophy '' supplied direction to people without it .


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manson and his co-defendants were all sentenced to death , but were spared when the state supreme court overturned capital punishment , which has since been reinstated .


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manson , now 54 , and the others have repeatedly sought parole from their life prison sentences without success .


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-lrb- sofia bta in english 1644 gmt 6 feb 94 au -rrb- lovech firm to assemble u.s. buses : the balkan mechanical engineering company in lovech , northern bulgaria , which until recently has assembled the russian moskvich car , is planning to change over to assembling american buses .


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now it makes about 40 types of starters for u.s. and european-made cars , using electrical equipment produced by bosch , chrysler , delco , lada , and mitsubishi .


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under the new tariff , cars with less than 1,800 cubic centimeters -lrb- cc -rrb- cylinder displacement carry no excise duty ; cars from 1 , 8oo to 2500 cc displacement will carry a duty of 10 percent and cars above 2,500 cc 40 percent .


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imports from india include cars , knitwear , garments , leather wear , mica , jewelry , pharmaceuticals , and spices .


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-lrb- sofia bta in english 1631 gmt 23 jan 94 au -rrb- rover cars to be produced in bulgaria : philip burney , rover group 's director for bulgaria , confirmed the company 's decision to launch production in this country .


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according to an investment project , several factories in northeastern bulgaria will be making car parts , while the assembly will be carried out in varna .


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a rover limousine , estate car , and van will be made in bulgaria .


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it will also proceed more slowly with a number of `` sensitive goods , '' such as automobiles , textile , and metals .


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the export of mobile ground equipment -lrb- vehicles -rrb- was largely made up of supplies of spare parts for the armored equipment sold earlier and partly of the special vehicles on tatra chassis .


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prague ctk in english 31 jan 94 au -rrb- skoda has stockpile of nearly 12,000 cars : the are some 11,800 skoda cars in stock in the czech republic .


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this is what milan smutny from the mlada boleslav automobile plant public relations department told a ctk reporter .


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the skoda plant produced some 200,000 cars last year , since demand for skoda cars rose sharply in 1993 .


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-lrb- prague rude pravo in czech 31 jan 94 au -rrb- skoda diesel plant faces economic problems : three years ago , skoda diesel , manufacturer of diesel motors , was one of the enterprises achieving the best economic results .


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-lrb- prague hospodarske noviny in czech 1 feb 94 au -rrb- skoda plzen electric car prototype : a prototype of a two - passenger electric vehicle was on display at the skoda plzen factory in ejpovice .


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the car can travel a distance of 80 kilometers per recharge , which takes 8 hours and uses 8 czech korunas-worth of electricity .


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-lrb- prague hospodarske noviny 10 jan 94 p 6 au -rrb- drop in skoda car sales in uk : the skoda automobile plant sold 9,153 automobiles in great britain last year , about 1,000 cars fewer than in 1992 .


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skoda cars sell in great britain for 5,500 british pounds .


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according to the number of units sold , skoda cars are roughly in the same category as the spanish seat or russian lada .


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-lrb- prague denni telegraf 15 jan 94 p 1 au -rrb- plzen factory to produce new truck : the state-owned enterprise stavebni stroje -lrb- building machines -rrb- plzen will manufacture a new 3.5-ton vehicle .


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the testing institute in prague is testing the vehicle at present and is expected to issue manufacturing approval by the end of january .


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-lrb- prague mlada fronta dnes 10 jan 94 p 14 au -rrb- skoda mlada boleslav sales rise 20 percent : the skoda automobile plant sold 219,600 cars in the 1993 fiscal year .


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the remaining shareholders include institutional investors , brokerage firms and the vehicle third party liability fund .


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-lrb- budapest mti in english 0905 gmt 19 jan 94 au -rrb- esztergom to build over 30,000 suzukis in 1994 : esztergom 's suzuki plant will turn out 30,000 - 35,000 cars in 1994 , three times the number produced in 1993 , the january report of the company says .


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the export of over 10,000 cars starts in april through suzuki 's western european distributors .


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in the context , the romanian commerce minister said the commission had found out opportunities for romanian exports to vietnam such as dacia cars for the vietnamese police and other public authorities , drilling equipment , electric railway engines to replace the older ones imported also from romania in the 8o 's .


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the romanian cars are going to be paid for in hard currency , the tires would be swapped for vietnamese natural rubber and the drilling equipment for crude oil .


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the project envisages an improvement of the 1,000 km of national routes , in view of a daily flow between 2,000 and 10,000 vehicles , most of them part of the master routes connecting the west with the east of the continent .


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the plans include the construction of at least three distribution and sales centers with three warehouses and a car pool of at least 100 vehicles .


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french automobile manufacturers investing outside of europe


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more that 1,000 405 's are to be assembled there this year , and 10,000 a year at full capacity , by an egyptian - american joint venture that also assembles jeeps .


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markets neglected by japanese : the french automobile industry has also chosen to break new ground in china and india .


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citroen is negotiating to assemble its c 15 commercial vehicles there .


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nevertheless , the french automobile makers manufacture only a small proportion of their vehicles outside of the old continent : renault 15 percent , versus 30 percent for nissan outside of japan .


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mr geoffrey whalen , managing director , warned that profits would be 'clearly worse ' this year in the face of the continuing steep recession in the uk new car market .


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however , he reaffirmed his belief that the result would be favourable compared with those of other leading car makers .


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next month fiat , the italian car maker , will start selling an electrically-powered version of the cinquecento , its new polish -built mini car .


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even the most senior figures behind its introduction , ettore panizza , technical director of fiat 's electrical and electronic systems division , and fabio massimello , production and marketing director of its electrical vehicles programme , acknowledge that its performance is 'miserable ' in comparison with the cinquecento 's petrol-engined versions .


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the elettra , like an electric version of the more basic panda which preceded the polish -built car into production , exists because it is fiat 's conviction that italy 's cities will soon legislate and electric vehicle industry into being .


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the legislation will not be identical to that of california , where any manufacturer wishing to sell more than 35,000 cars a year will have to make at least 2 per cent of them 'zero emissions ' -lrb- electric -rrb- starting in 1988 .


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from 1994-95 , he says , cities across italy will start closing their centres to all but electric cars .


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as the trend spreads , so fiat sees its electric car sales inexorably rising .


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perhaps the ultimate current demonstration of what purpose-building an electric car can achieve is provided by the general motors impact .


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they see electric cars 'as little car for the city only ' , says massimello .


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'it is very important to try to get cost closer to that of an ordinary car , ' says massimello .


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not least , he acknowledges , this is because there is little prospect of an ev ever being a direct substitute for an 'ordinary ' car , 'it will be only the second or third vehicle in a family , ' he believes .


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the current price disadvantage of all electric cars requires a big effort to achieve economies of scale in component production , panizza stresses .


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but that means europe 's car makers agreeing to share core componentry .


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the sharing of specifications at an early stage may mean that the purpose-built electric cars of the late 1990s will share - under their differing skins and manufacturers ' labels - components that are mostly common and this relatively inexpensive .


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last year , the uk 's balance of trade deficit on motor vehicles shrank sharply from more than pounds 6bn to about pounds 1.5bn .


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much of the fall was due to a uk new car market collapse , preventing the usual high volume of imports from being sucked in .


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even so , mr geoffrey whalen , uk motor industry veteran , past president of the society of motor manufacturers and traders , and chevalier de la legion d'honneur , could derive much satisfaction from the export contribution made by peugeot talbot , the french vehicles group 's uk subsidiary , of which he has been chief executive for nearly a decade .


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to put that in context , total output at ryton was 87,000 cars , so the precise export content was just under 69 per cent .


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the previous year , before the uk market began collapsing , ryton built 116,000 cars , of which more than 81,000 went for export .


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in addition , many of the parts used to produce the ryton -built cars are imported from the continent .


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***** mike otty was taking something of a leap into the unknown when he decided to move from trying to set up an electronic rival to glass 's guide , the uk motor trade 's used car price 'bible ' , to taking a job with al habtoor , a dubai - headquartered conglomerate active throughout the gulf .


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from now on , vehicles will form only a part of his remit .


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inchcape is the world 's largest independent car distributor , although this will be the company 's first direct involvement in car importing and distribution in japan .


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the deal follows a plunge in sales of peugeot cars in japan .


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yanase motors , japan 's biggest dealer in imported cars , has decided to stop selling volkswagen - audi cars from next year .


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for france 's bilateral import quota on japanese cars , which has limited their penetration to around 3 per cent of the domestic market for years , is due to go by the end of this year .


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already , the japanese share of the french car market has been allowed to creep up in anticipation , from 3.3 per cent of new registrations in 1990 to 4.1 per cent last year , according to the comite des constructeurs francais d'automobiles .


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by 1998 , japanese imports to france could rise from last year 's 82,440 vehicles to around 317,000 , or 11.1 per cent of the market , according to the european commission .


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the french government appears resigned to opening the floodgates , made inevitable by the 1990 ec - japan car import agreement , under which the community market is to be fully liberalised over a seven-year transition period to the end of 1999 .


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fuji heavy industries was planning to export legacy saloons and estate cars to france at the end of september and expects authorisation soon to import subaru cars .


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subaru france hopes to sell 1,000 fuji cars in the year to march 1993 from 25 new outlets .


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yet the extent to which just in time stock control depends on japanese style labour stability was sharply underlined by a strike at renault 's main engine and gearbox plant last year , which took only 10 days to halt the group 's entire french and belgian car production , starved of vital components .


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now the lines are divided into sections , each managed by an autonomous team , responsible for correcting its own faults as the vehicle moves through .


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this is another way of cutting costs to the bone , but also reflects the fact that neither wants to get involved in the increasing electronic and specialised components found in modern cars .


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another part of the race to catch up with japan is the time and investment needed to design and launch new cars .


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the time taken to design and launch renault 's latest small car , the twingo , was in line with japanese experience , says mr philippe gras , deputy chief executive .


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the result of all these efforts is to bring the french car industry 's productivity to just 10 per cent behind that of japanese car producers in britain , itself 10 per cent behind the japanese in japan , according to a study by consultants mckinsey for the european commission .


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it started manufacturing plastic components for cars in 1954 in coventry .


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which accounts for 75 per cent of its turnover , but other customers include jaguar cars , rover , honda and massey ferguson .


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the news came as another of europe 's big employers , automobiles peugeot , confirmed that it would be cutting its workforce by about 7 per cent by the end of next year .


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in france , automobiles peugeot , part of the peugeot - citroen car group , said its cost-cutting plan would involve the loss of 4,023 jobs .


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the decision , which was prompted by the depressed state of the european car market , is the latest in a series of job cuts by french industry .


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industry analysts said they expected further job cuts at french car and component manufacturers over the next few months .


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chausson , the french automobile company which is jointly owned by peugeot and renault , said yesterday that it was suspending payments .


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the south-east asian region , encompassing south korea , taiwan and the asean block , has become an important force within the global automotive industry , and is providing the world 's vehicle and components manufacturers with some of the strongest growth rates and most substantial business opportunities to be found anywhere in the world .


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during the 1990s the current boom in vehicle output is set to continue apace in the wake of rapidly-growing local demand and the development by a number of companies of important export markets .


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from a total output across the region of 2.9m vehicles in 1992 -lrb- 1.9m


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passenger cars and 1m commercial vehicles -rrb- production is expected to increase substantially into the early years of the next century and beyond .


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the recently-published financial times management report , the emerging asia-pacific automotive industry : growth and opportunities from south korea to turkey , which examines this sector in some depth is , for example , forecasting that by the year 2002 some 4.6m passenger cars and 2.8m commercial vehicles a year could be produced in south korea , taiwan , thailand , malaysia , indonesia and the philippines .


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growth in south korean vehicle manufacturing is also likely to be substantial over the next decade - especially if plans by one or more participants in that industry for the establishment of overseas plants come to fruition .


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so far , the motor vehicle industries of taiwan and the asean block have been largely dominated by japanese multinationals , although opportunities have existed for american and european automakers , and will , indeed , continue to present themselves over the coming years .


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of taiwan 's current tally of 10 vehicle manufacturers in early 1993 , eight assemble japanese makes and three american or european models .


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in 1992 , the ford lio ho motor company , in which ford motor company has a majority shareholding , accounted for more than a quarter of total vehicle output in taiwan , and is planning an increase in production in the 1980s .


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in thailand , several makes of european vehicles are assembled in modest quantities by local companies , although general motors is thought to be considering the re-commencement of assembly operations in conjunction with the bangchan general assembly company .


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the excellent potential of the thai motor vehicle market could lead several other western carmakers to re-evaluate opportunities .


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as in thailand , the malaysian motor vehicle assembly sector is almost totally dominated by japanese models , although seven european makes of passenger car , and one american , were assembled in 1992 in very low quantities .


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in addition , the official first and second national car projects involve respectively mitsubishi and daihatsu - although it is not inconceivable that an opportunity for a western luxury car manufacturer could present itself at some stage in the future , should a third national car project ever be formulated .


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the position in indonesia is little different from that in thailand and malaysia , although general motors has been negotiating with two local companies for the establishment of further vehicle assembly agreements .


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within the small vehicle assembly industry of the philippines , mercedes-benz in march 1993 received approval from the board of investments for the assembly of two models by the commercial motors corporation under the newly-opened luxury car category of the car development programme .


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french car manufacturers can not remember when times were so hard .


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'there is n't any sign of an upturn for the rest of the year , ' says mr bob barber at james capel , who forecasts a full year decline in the french car market of about 15 per cent .


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registrations of peugeot -citroen cars in france fell by almost 19 per cent - to 300,500 vehicles - in the first seven months of 1993 .


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renault did better , but still suffered a fall of 12.7 per cent - to 314,000 vehicles , according to figures from the committee of french automobile constructors .


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renault , the world 's most profitable car manufacturer in 1992 -lrb- in terms of the ratio of net profits to sales -rrb- , saw pre-tax profits plunge by by almost 90 per cent - from ffr5 .44 bn to ffr730m in the first half of the year .


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peugeot-citroen , which saw profits fall from ffr5 .53 bn to ffr3.37bn in 1992 , is expected by most car industry analysts to fall into loss this year .


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'the results were better than expected , ' says one french car industry analyst , adding that the introduction of new models such as the citroen xantia and the peugeot 306 would help sales , particularly with the introduction - in june - of diesel models .


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'renault has continued to strengthen its image at the expense of peugeot , ' says one car industry executive in paris , citing the safrane , the high-end model which has enjoyed a successful introduction .


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for both car manufacturers there is also the potential benefit of a weaker franc .


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it has also announced that it is stopping production of its 405 model in its uk factory .


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car industry analysts in paris say that , for renault , the downturn in the market increases pressure to finalise its merger with volvo , the swedish car manufacturer , so as to achieve production economies .


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a final deal , which is thought to be imminent , will give the merged company 12 per cent of the european car market and more than 20 per cent of the european truck market .


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if the french government has sought to galvanise the two companies into a speedier marriage , it has also sought to protect the french car market from what it regards as unwelcome suitors .