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...waning months of Duarte's administration were beset by political turmoil. In March 1988 Duarte's bitter political rivals, the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), won control of the national legislature. Duarte's attempts to heal a deepening rift within his Christian Democratic Party failed, and one year later ARENA's presidential candidate, Alfredo Cristiani, triumphed, with 54% of the vote...
...highflyers who symbolized the boom time. Last month Peter Cohen stepped down as chairman of Shearson Lehman Hutton, the firm he had built into a Wall Street giant that ranked second only to Merrill Lynch. Like so much that flourished during the hothouse decade, Shearson simply grew too fast. Beset by falling revenues, failing deals and internal disputes, Cohen was forced out by James Robinson III, the chairman of American Express, Shearson's parent company...
Perhaps too hard. In the varied scandals involving improper political influence that have beset the capital, one name keeps popping up: Alfonse D'Amato. Last week D'Amato even became entangled in New York City's increasingly nasty mayoralty contest between Republican Rudolph Giuliani, the Mob-busting former U.S. Attorney, and Democrat David Dinkins. D'Amato conceded that he had telephoned Giuliani in 1984 and 1985 to pass along pleas for a review of charges or reduced prison sentences for Mobsters Paul Castellano and Mario Gigante. Giuliani refused to intercede...
...Beset by television and the proliferation of news pictures, photojournalism renewed itself by bringing a more personal vision -- and sometimes a darker one -- to an era of accelerating events at home and abroad...
...equally powerful coalition is opposed to a global ban. Those few southern African countries -- Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa -- that have not been beset by poachers cull their herds to maintain the elephant populations at optimum levels. That culling produces legally traded ivory. Those countries say a ban would punish them for the corruption and inefficiency of other nations. Ivory traders and retailers, of course, also oppose a comprehensive ban, hoping to save an industry with annual revenues estimated at $500 million to $1 billion worldwide. They are joined by the CITES secretariat, a Lausanne- based bureaucracy that monitors...