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...courted that fate, it is Lay. Last week he put three properties in Aspen up for sale, for $16 million, and huddled with his lawyers in preparation for congressional hearings next month. Few in business have ever fallen so far so fast: the man who once could raise Cabinet officials with a single telephone call and rated the only one-on-one meeting with the Vice President on energy policy last year can't show his face in Houston for fear of reprisals...
...have a weakness? Yes, my famous temper. My New Year's resolution was to tone it down. In fact, I understand members of my cabinet are having a bet among themselves as to who will incur my ire first...
...seemingly calculated ambiguity allowed others to do so. The favorite charge is that she's no different from Estrada?or not different enough ("same dog with a different collar," says businessman Zobel, who predicts some kind of mass uprising before the summer is out). One of her first Cabinet nominations was a former general who was being investigated for corruption. Accusations against her husband?for steering government money to favored Senate campaigns, and for taking bribes?have likewise been damaging...
...start the fight against corruption? From the top. Every President is criticized and I am no exception. What is important is that we must be able to weather the criticisms by being not guilty of them. Early on I set up a committee to help me select a cabinet. I wanted members who were competent and hardworking, and I think I've been successful. In fact, many American businesspeople tell me that I have a dream cabinet. I have seven Harvard graduates, three Wharton graduates, and four veterans of Wall Street...
...game. DIED. CYRUS VANCE, 84, veteran public servant and former Secretary of State for Jimmy Carter; in New York City. Vance also worked in the Johnson Administration, and was credited for warding off a war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. Vance is best remembered, however, for quitting the Cabinet in 1980 over Carter's decision to send U.S. troops to rescue hostages in Tehran. DIED. AMPARO MONTES, 81, one of the last survivors of Mexico's golden age of music in the 1940s and '50s; in Mexico City. With her deep, sensuous voice, Montes was dubbed "la Voz Pasional...