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Prostitution, besides being illegal and immoral, is expensive. To cut the aftertax cost of illicit sex in Chicago's suburbs, a firm called National Credit Service offered businessmen phony invoices that they could use to claim false tax deductions, as well as the privilege of credit-card payment. Lucrative though its business was, the firm closed up shop last week with the announcement that it had been an FBI sting. "We got everything we hoped for, and more," said Chicago FBI Special Agent Bob Long. Officials predict that the sting, dubbed Operation Safe Bet, could produce indictments...
...news should have been greeted with sweeping enthusiasm. Instead, it was hardly greeted at all. The announcement was mentioned only briefly in the capital's three major newspapers and received no coverage on the country's three commercial television stations, all of which are owned by wealthy businessmen who oppose Duarte as being dangerously leftist...
...lacked an effective judicial system to prosecute the murderers. He had to continue fighting a five-year-old civil war against leftist rebels and still assert his control over the sometimes recalcitrant armed forces. He had to rebuild the country's splintered economy and win the trust of businessmen, most of whom voted against him. As his five-year term began, the President seemed in imminent danger of being squeezed between left and right...
...Faced with a shrinking tax base and a war that will consume approximately 23% of this year's $9.4 billion national budget, the government has resorted to printing more money, further weakening the battered colon. So far, however, Duarte has resisted devaluation, even though that step would help businessmen win higher prices for their exports. The reason: much of his electoral support comes from organized labor, which fears that a cheaper colon would drive up prices for the working class...
...economic issues, the President has moved closer to the center. Planning Minister Fidel Chávez Mena has promised to consult business and labor in drawing up a recovery plan. In the atmosphere of stability produced by Duarte's election, entrepreneurs are opening new businesses again. Many businessmen still distrust Duarte, but others are willing to give him a chance. "The President today has the respect he didn't have before," says Eduardo Menéndez, the head of a plastic-products company in the capital...