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...week's end the FBI struck again, arresting Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst and naturalized U.S. citizen, charging him with spying for the People's Republic of China. Agents said that Chin, who retired in 1981 from the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which monitors radio broadcasts, had been employed by the U.S. in various capacities since World War II and may have been spying for China since the early 1950s...
...residents of Armero and surrounding towns are believed to have survived the disaster. Last week 4,500 of them were scattered in 23 hospitals and clinics in four provinces. Thousands more have trekked off across the countryside in search of lost relatives, aided by lists and photographs of survivors broadcast or published by the government. Already, most of the hundreds of children left parentless by the disaster have been claimed by relatives. Altogether, some 8,000 children under 16 died in the mudslides...
...startling departure from this double standard, a Peking criminal court last week sentenced 23 government officials to as long as ten years in prison for crimes "involving bribery, fraud, illegal speculation and tax evasion." To make sure the Chinese public got the message, the sentencing hearing was broadcast on national television and the culprits were shown with their heads bowed and shaved. Most prominent among them was Yin Zhinong, a retired deputy manager of a steel mill and longtime Communist Party member. Yin got a six-year prison term for speculation and was stripped of his party membership. Said...
...What he pulled off, and what he inspired, still seems something like a fantasy. A single record by a group of British rock stars organized by Geldof under the rubric Band Aid raised $11 million. The Live Aid concert, held in London and Philadelphia the same July day and broadcast live around the world, brought in an additional $72 million. The success of these projects, as well as Geldof s cocky fervor, inspired such allied enterprises as FarmAid, Fashion Aid and--in the late spring of '86--Sport Aid. He knows that much more than a shower of dollars...
...acquire South Korean rival Kia Motors, which had to be assimilated. Chung had little experience with the automotive industry. He had spent most of his career managing a smorgasbord of affiliates, including a steel company, a pipemaker, a shipping-container manufacturer and Hyundai Motor's service business. When Chung broadcast his intention to turn Hyundai into a Top 5 automaker, few took him seriously. Hyundai, like many family-controlled Korean companies, was ultra-hierarchical and slow to change. Division chiefs ran their operations as personal fiefdoms. "When a problem occurred, each division would blame other divisions," says Lee Hyun Soon...