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Investors and other businessmen naturally want to see the P.R.I. candidate, whoever it is, win on Aug. 21. That will mean the ratification and continuation of Salinas' free-market policies. But the real test of Mexico's political maturity may be how free and honest the election turns out to be -- how few the charges of vote rigging are -- no matter who wins. That will measure how deeply democratic institutions have taken root...
...president of Mexico's largest banking group, Banamex, was held for an undisclosed ransom after being abducted by at least six gunmen in Mexico City. Billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu is just one of 2,000 Mexican businessmen who have been kidnapped for profit in the past five years...
...recovered the 16th century painting by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael known both as The Madonna with Child and Lamb and The Madonna of the Hay. The canvas, never publicly exhibited, disappeared in the early 1880s. After agreeing to pay $24 million for it, the police reportedly detained five businessmen and art dealers. But just as the art world got one masterpiece back, it lost another. Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen from the National Art Museum in Oslo. It had been on display as part of a Munch exhibition in conjunction with the Lillehammer Olympics...
...Richard Riordan announced a grandiose plan to relieve traffic congestion by extensive "telecommuting" -- working from home with computers and faxes. He also spoke of creating "satellite office centers" outside the downtown districts. The Southern California Telecommuting Partnership was organized in the earthquake's aftermath. Its members, a coalition of businessmen and government officials, hope to make telecommuting a viable option for the city, bringing permanent change to the way its work force is organized. "This will become the country's most advanced telecommuting system ever," said Riordan, a lawyer and former venture capitalist long practiced in cajoling the private...
...carefully choreographed pas de deux that the U.S. and Vietnam have been cautiously enacting for the past seven months. Aside from the financial incentives, Hanoi has been keen to reestablish links with the U.S. as a counterweight to the looming influence of China in the region. American businessmen are eager to cash in on the potential market a liberated Vietnam will open up. But all the economic and geopolitical considerations are hostage to the emotionally charged matter of the missing Americans. The question for Clinton is less geostrategic than political: Can he now afford to incur the wrath...