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...military strongman who has run Panama for the past five years. Delvalle said he had requested Noriega to "voluntarily step aside" while the U.S. investigated drug-trafficking charges that federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa had brought against the general in early February. His remarks completed, Delvalle bade good evening to his fellow citizens, leaving them to wonder what would happen next...
...treasonous embrace of fascism, Camus was willing to plead for the condemned man's life. The unpublished letter had been sent to Pivot by a friend researching a Camus biography. As his guests sat in silence, awed by Camus's beautifully written and powerful denunciation of collaboration, Pivot bade his audience good-night...
Gary Hart bade farewell to his Senate years at a party in Washington last week and took steps toward two possible new careers. On the political track, the Colorado Democrat launched an exploratory committee for his 1988 presidential campaign. This week bookstores will begin stocking copies of Hart's first solo attempt at fiction, The Strategies of Zeus, an arms-control thriller. The book features a Vice President who manipulates his doddering Commander in Chief into secretly launching a killer satellite. The hero is a Montana-born arms negotiator who exudes an "aura of separateness (that) made him seem . . . strong...
...BankAmerica board had met over the previous weekend to recall Clausen hastily from his retirement in Washington. His task: to take over as chief executive officer from the man who was both his successor and now his predecessor, President Samuel Armacost, 47, who resigned on Oct. 10. Directors also bade farewell to BankAmerica Chairman Leland Prussia, 57, who took early retirement. Now Clausen must deal quickly with a flood of red ink amounting to almost $1 billion in losses in the past five quarters at BankAmerica. He also faces the unwelcome challenge of a more than $2 billion merger offer...
Schmidt, 67, is not running in next January's parliamentary elections, and last week he bade farewell to politics with a two-hour speech in the Bundestag. Even in his farewell address, he got in a few glancing blows. Schmidt blasted Chancellor Helmut Kohl for following U.S. policy too slavishly, saying, "The Federal Republic must remain the friend and partner of the United States, but not a client...