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...DIED. KYI MAUNG, 85, vice chairman and co-founder of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD); in Rangoon. Kyi Maung led the NLD to a landslide victory in Burma's 1990 election after party head Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest?the ruling junta has never honored that electoral result. After the election, Kyi Maung, who had often been detained in the past, was sentenced to 20 years in jail but was released in 1995. He eventually fell out with Suu Kyi over how best to fight the junta...
...press conference before the match, Fischer spat on a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department telling him not to play. He beat Spassky and pocketed a $3.35 million prize, and a U.S. federal warrant was issued for his arrest. Faced with a possible penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for violating America's economic sanctions, he has never returned to the States...
...many murder mysteries, the killing of the Russian oil giant Yukos - which began last fall with the arrest of its CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and could climax at any time with the firm's bankruptcy or forced sale of assets - is being committed in public but was plotted in private. The hammer blows that are bringing down the firm have been delivered in plain sight: Khodorkovsky's ongoing trial for alleged fraud, tax evasion and embezzlement; the Russian government's demand for up to $6.8 billion in alleged unpaid corporate taxes; its simultaneous freezing of company assets, which makes that...
...Russian oil company Yukos, on charges of embezzlement, theft and tax evasion has alarmed the international community [Nov. 10]. The shadow of Stalinist repression is getting longer, but this time it is being cast by Russian President Vladimir Putin. How will Russian economic growth be affected by the arrest of the oligarch who was working to open links with the West? So far, nothing has happened, because investors still think Russia is a good place to put their money. But time will tell if Khodorkovsky's arrest will herald a return to the Kremlin's old methods of control. Bruno...
...ARRESTED. MARK HACKING, 28, husband of missing brokerage assistant Lori Hacking; on one count of aggravated murder; in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hacking claimed his wife had disappeared after going out for a run. After his arrest, his brother Scott told the Salt Lake Tribune that Mark had confessed the murder to him late last month...