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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satchels filled with bills in small denominations to the entrance of a park in upper Manhattan, where he handed them to Fermin. But the kidnapper didn't keep his end of the bargain to release Weinstein within three hours. Fearing that the abductors might flee the country and abandon their victim to die, police moved...
...cover-up. The scandal has ruined the careers of high government officials, and two GSG-9 men are under investigation for allegedly shooting Grams in cold blood as he lay helpless on track 4 of the Bad Kleinen station. The Red Army Faction, which had indicated that it might abandon violence, says it will resume its assassination tactics. The future of GSG-9 is in doubt, and Grams has become a martyr among young German leftists...
...winds of fortune blow kindly, Raul Gardini will be remembered as a shining symbol of his age, a captain of industry and a world-class sailor who piloted both his companies and his million-dollar yachts with joyous abandon. He worked hard for 60 years to cultivate that image, in a land where myths ripen richly and image often counts more than fact...
There are those who argue that some of the ethnic cleansing that has put hundreds of thousands of Bosnians to flight can be undone -- and can be prevented from happening again. Wohlstetter and others contend that Washington has been too quick to abandon its option of "lift and strike" -- lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims and strike at mainly Serbian heavy weapons with aircraft and limited ground forces. But it may be too late for that, with Sarajevo on the verge of defeat. In any case, the lift option is vehemently opposed by all of Europe except Germany...
...Compaq, Dell and Apple are floundering; profits are plunging, margins squeezed. Last month one of the personal-computer industry's leading lights -- the pioneering Tandy Corp. -- became a prominent casualty. Faced with $52 million in losses in the past year and an even bloodier future, Tandy decided to abandon the PC business, which accounted for 10% of its sales last year. The company simply could not survive the intense price competition...