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Approximately 300 prominent alumni from the Los Angeles area attended the program, entitled "Harvard Plays L.A.," Ables said. "There were authors, producers, businessmen and screenwriters-at my table there was a Vice President from NBC in charge of mini-series and movies," he said...
Nelson Mandela has arrived at an estate in the wine country outside Cape Town where he will dine and speak on economic reconstruction to 75 mostly white businessmen and bankers. He receives a standing ovation. Politely acknowledging the applause, he samples a glass of sweet Weisser Riesling 1993 and jokes about his lack of vinous sophistication. During his last days in prison, he says, he was permitted to have visitors for relatively luxurious meals, and his warder once told him the best wines were dry. "I thought every wine was wet," Mandela says now with a laugh. Not long...
TIME: Political leadership in Vietnam has long been defined by service to war and revolution. What will Vietnam's new leaders be--ideologues, bureaucrats or businessmen...
...Church Committee did not go that far, but the bureau conspicuously pulled in its horns. It learned another lesson a few years later when it captured on video members of Congress taking bribes from undercover agents posing as Arab businessmen. The public was outraged at the Congressmen, and juries ultimately convicted seven of them, but Congress was upset with the FBI and launched an inquiry into the bureau's Abscam investigation. And then the FBI got into trouble for investigating CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), a group it believed was supporting leftist rebels...
...Adviser Anthony Lake about business opportunities in Vietnam. When their request was denied, Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski tried to help by requesting his own meeting with Lake. Could the Senator bring the executives along? Lake replied that he would be happy to talk with Murkowski, but not with the businessmen...