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With the welter of claims and counter-claims and evidence that has been contradictory and based on hearsay, it is unlikely that the Truth Commission will come to any significant conclusion. Of more concern to many South Africans is the fact that Madikizela-Mandela has been nominated to run for deputy president of the majority African National Congress when Nelson Mandela retires as party head this month (he will remain head of the government until 1999) and his deputy, Thabo Mbeki, becomes party president...
...however, the Clinton Administration, seeking to counter Republican charges of lack of leadership on the drug issue, is looking for a way to move against the clubs. Federal sources tell TIME that the Administration may try to shut down some high-volume cannabis clubs under the seldom-invoked civil provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act, which allows the Justice Department to ask a federal judge to halt a drug-distribution operation. The advantages of this approach are that the case is decided by a judge, not a jury, and the government need not prove the club's proprietors acted...
Justice officials counter that what the FBI regards as micromanaging is good stewardship of the Constitution--and that the bureau is really seeking unbridled power to probe anyone for any reason. "It's a little bit chilling," says a Justice aide...
Alwaleed's success is partly explained by the blend of Saudi, Lebanese and American influences that have shaped his relatively short career. By his own reckoning, his investment savvy draws on a Bedouin's instinct for caution, a Levantine's flair for a bargain and a bean counter's fondness for the bottom line. "He has an extremely agile mind," says U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Wyche Fowler. "He is always two or three jumps ahead of you." Alwaleed can negotiate in Arabic, English and French...
...children, Khalid, 18, and Reem, 14), Alwaleed is not currently linked with any woman. He laughs sheepishly when people tell him, as they frequently do, that he is the world's most eligible bachelor. In contrast to the stereotype of the whoring petro-sheik, he calls himself a "calorie counter" who doesn't drink or smoke and has an American's obsession with fitness (he now weighs in at 136 lbs.). His only vice seems to be, hardly surprisingly, an appetite for luxury. He is very fond of his 282-ft. Kingdom 5-KR, the ostentatious yacht formerly owned...