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DIED. Georges Remi (nom de plume: Hergé), 75, Belgian artist-creator of the internationally known comic-strip chronicles of Tin tin, the perennially youthful and sparky reporter-adventurer who first appeared in a Brussels newspaper and went on to star in 23 books that have sold 80 million copies in 30 languages and enchanted three generations of children; in Brussels...
...mobile home before she married Pulitzer, grandson of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, seven years ago. He ruled that she had "continuously engaged in adultery and other gross marital misconduct." Indeed, testimony indicated that she had slept with a Palm Beach real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver and Jacquie Kimberly, beautiful wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly. The judge felt sorry for Pulitzer, he wrote, when he saw "the embarrassment, painful hurt and frustrating concern exuding from his doleful eyes and aging face." At the same time, "the wife nonchalantly sat at the table doodling...
...picture was not always so gloomy. In the early 1970s, after nearly a decade of civil strife, the former Belgian Congo had achieved a measure of political stability under the dictatorship of President Mobutu Sese Seko. More important, the country was recognized as a treasure trove of gold, diamonds, oil, copper and cobalt. Banks rushed to extend credit. They were to rue the day. Notes one foreign banker in Kinshasa: "We did not do our sums properly...
...legendary personal fortune at the nation's expense." Kickbacks are the order of the day, with the President's cronies controlling significant slices of the economy. "It's the greed of a handful at the top that keeps this country in an economic mess," says one Belgian businessman. Complains one of Zaïre's former financial advisers: "We had great hopes, but they are all gone. It is a country that makes people dream and then makes them go crazy...
...bank. TIME has obtained a copy of the secret report he wrote to IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere early last year. In it, Blumenthal describes refusing high officials' requests for bundles of cash of up to $50,000, finding a government payment of $4 million to a Belgian professor who was the guardian of Mobutu's son, and uncovering a discrepancy of $32.6 million between what was supposed to be in the government's bank accounts abroad and the money that was actually there...