Word: businessman
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Much was made of the dismissal by a Los Angeles federal judge of charges against Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain in the 1985 torture-murder of D.E.A. agent Enrique Camarena. But the prosecution did not come away completely empty-handed. Alvarez's co-defendant, Ruben Zuno Arce, a Mexican businessman and brother-in-law of former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, was convicted in the same court. According to the jury, Zuno helped plan Camarena's kidnapping and was present while he was tortured. He could receive life...
...businessman's best seller tells a fiscal horror story...
...Panic, a businessman who made a fortune in California before taking up his post in July, appealed the decision to the Serbian Supreme Court, but that body is headed by the same man who heads the Electoral Commission. Leading opposition figures, citing other electoral shenanigans from the Milosevic camp, have threatened to boycott the elections altogether. (See related story on page...
Little Rock, Arkansas, these days is a sump of brazen supplication. Members of Bill Clinton's transition staff report that a lawyer from Wyoming called to say he should be made a federal judge; a businessman from Arkansas wrote a five-page letter explaining why he should be named ambassador to the Court of St. James's; and people with the remotest connection to the President-elect say they have not paid for a lunch or dinner in weeks. But there is one man who is so close to power that he does not need...
GREGORY O'DANIEL WAS READY TO play a role in getting the economy back on the road to recovery. The Pennsylvania businessman wanted to lease new machinery and hire a dozen more employees so that his two-year-old firm, Tempco USA, could boost its production of cosmetic cotton pads and facial tissues. But O'Daniel needed financing to do that, so he went to his local bank for a $300,000 line of credit. His company has an unblemished credit history and has been ringing up $600,000 in monthly sales to such customers as Wal-Mart...