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Another key contributor to this week's story was Caribbean Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who has reported on Latin American drug trafficking for the past 20 years, first from Mexico City and now from Miami, one of the main U.S. entry points for cocaine. Says he: "From Mexico's Sierra Madre, where I covered opium-eradication programs in the 1970s, to Colombia's La Guajira Peninsula, which I visited late last year, the mark of the drug trade is the littered wreckage everywhere of smugglers' planes that didn't make it." The drug trade has apparently also wrecked the image...
Welcome to Northwestern's sociology course "Social Problem Norms and Deviance", starring Bernard Beck, comedian extrodinaire, as the professor...
State Department officials were far from delighted by the showing of the tape. According to Spokesman Bernard Kalb, publicity could "unnecessarily complicate (the hostages') release and perhaps endanger their safety." Indeed, the State Department had seen a similar tape last July, this time of all three captives, but had kept it secret...
...Bernard Hanon, the chairman of the board of Renault, the nationally owned French automaker, was sleeping at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City two weeks ago when the ax fell. At 4 a.m. an aide called from Paris to read him a front- page article from the pro-Socialist daily Le Matin. The paper announced that Hanon, 53, would soon be replaced by Georges Besse, 57, chairman of the Pechiney state-owned aluminum conglomerate. Shocked and angry, Hanon caught the next Concorde back to Paris. Summoned to Premier Laurent Fabius' office early last week, Hanon was forced to resign...
...auto industry has been hard hit by recession and government austerity measures; total car sales in France dropped by 12.9% in 1984. Moreover, Hanon was hampered by the government in trying to trim his work force of 98,000. Says one company official: "The government asked too much of Bernard Hanon, to be an effective corporate executive and to run Renault as a social showcase." Hanon attempted to toe that fine line with a plan that called for a reduction of some 9,000 jobs. Although the proposal did not involve any forced layoffs, it was rejected last month...