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...husband of Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs, whose work depicts Beautiful People and vanishing African wildlife; on charges of illegally cultivating marijuana on his Kenyan ranch and of possession of allegedly obscene materials, notably a book of Helmut Newton photographs; in Nairobi. Beard denied both charges and was released on $294 bail...
...security officials and forcibly carried away In Washington, U.S. officials expressed concern "that Mrs. Mandela's arrest could lead to further escalation of violence in South Africa," and called for her immediate release. A Johannesburg judge charged Mandela with violating her restriction order but released her without requesting bail. A trial is scheduled for Jan. 22. Said Mandela: "I am charged with a crime that does not exist in most of the democratic civilized world--being at home...
Evans was one of ten men arrested and held without bail last week. Five of them were seized in Bermuda, where, U.S. officials said, they were meeting to work out details of two of the deals. Another participant in the session was retired Israeli Brigadier General Avraham Baram, 52, a former tank commander. His presence raised questions about possible official involvement by Israel, which ran a profitable aboveboard arms trade with Iran until 1979. Even though the Khomeini regime is a sworn enemy of Israel, Jerusalem views the drawn-out war as a useful drain on the resources of Iraq...
That year, Summers served as Clinton’s point-man on a controversial effort to bail out the heavily indebted Mexican government. The Clinton administration bypassed the Republican-controlled Congress in the face of vehement GOP opposition to the bailout plan—a maneuver that didn’t endear Summers to Republicans on the Hill or their allies in the press corps...
...rest of the world started years before George W. Bush invaded Iraq "unilaterally." Mahbubani is particularly astute about how the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 damaged America's image overseas. He writes, for example, about how disillusioned Thais were when the U.S. did not bail them out after it had bailed out Mexico during a similar currency crisis in 1994. The reason the U.S. spurned Thailand may seem obvious to a lot of Americans?"you're not on our border," one U.S. Treasury Department official supposedly told the Thais. But for a country that had followed the global financial...