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...State President P.W. Botha's ruling National Party, the Treurnicht-Marais challenge is no laughing matter, as last week's cautious performance at Durban proved. While Botha has pressed his agenda of modest reform, he has been forced to watch the right wing carefully. A senior National Party official estimated this month that of South Africa's 4.9 million whites (60% of whom are Afrikaners), about 20% support ultraconservative groups that insist on retaining total apartheid. If the President continues on his path of reform, the official predicted, the extreme right might increase its strength by 6% to 8%. Other...
...domestic audiences. Soviet TV's news team was led by Valentin Zorin, 61, the gray-haired, avuncular dean of Moscow's on-air political analysts. Zorin's background reports came principally from Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's top-ranking Americanologist. Like other Soviet journalists, Zorin adopted a tone of cautious optimism once the summit was under way, telling his audience of 150 million on the 9 o'clock nightly newscast Vremya (Time), "If the two leaders manage to take even just a first step, that is very good." Nevertheless, the newscasts were less than complete: in a feature on Gorbachev...
...companies from General Motors to Sony to Cisco have complained about intellectual-property theft. China's State Intellectual Property Office invalidated Pfizer's patent protection on Viagra last summer, arguing that the drug failed to fulfill the novelty requirement under Chinese law. Like many other multinationals, Pfizer is now cautious about expanding its R&D work in China. Unless Beijing gets a grip on "ownership issues," says Anne Stevenson-Yang, director of the U.S. Information Technology Office in Beijing, China's ability to become a technological superpower will be limited...
...supersedes the one under which Andersen was tried-and it broadens the criteria that determine who may be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. Still, says Todd Jones, a corporate litigator at the Atlanta law firm Powell Goldstein, the SEC and the Justice Department are likely to be more cautious about pursuing such cases now, having been warned against prosecutorial overreach. One prominent white-collar litigant, former financier Frank Quattrone, above left, is appealing his conviction on similar grounds and has argued that he did not mean to commit a crime when he had documents destroyed...
...move of meeting him. Even Mark's manipulative scheme gradually begins to seem more like a pitifully misguided attempt at reconnecting with someone he cared about. The whole thing blows up, of course, at the climactic get-together where Mark gets progressively more drunk, his horny friend gets less cautious and Ingrid allows herself to hang around for the free drinks. Astutely observed, snappily written and finely drawn, Karl Stevens' "Guilty" makes for an impressive debut...