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Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the military coup that ousted Aristide's government and has forced many Haitians into hiding. Others have been forced to seek refuge in the U.S. from what demonstrators called a "campaign of terror...
That relentless will to survive and conquer has now led Redstone, 70, the chairman of MTV-owner Viacom Inc., to launch what could be the business coup of a lifetime. At an age when most executives are thinking country clubs and conferences, Redstone last week engineered an $8.2 billion offer to acquire Paramount Communications for $69.14 a share in cash and stock and thereby create one of the world's media giants.Since Redstone would hold 70% of the voting stock of the combined company, he would have majority control of more movies, books and television shows than any other media...
...Minister, Robert Malval, reinstated Port-au-Prince's mayor, Evans Paul, despite threats by armed goons, among them civilian police auxiliaries, that they would kill both men if the mayor tried to recover his old job. Paul was ousted along with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup. After the mayor's return,the thugs who had seized city hall killed six Aristide supporters. Days later, businessman Antoine Izmery was dragged out of Mass and executed. Aristide is expected to return to power next month...
...Russians, on the other hand, have never pretended to happiness. So pollsters there prefer to plumb matters about which the Russians have some working knowledge -- like misery. Surveys reveal that a growing minority, now 14%, feel they would have been better off if the hard-line coup of 1991 had succeeded, 63% say they are sorry the Soviet Union collapsed and 72% believe life under capitalism is even more wretched than it was under communism. So depressed are the Russians that 27% confided to pollsters that they would be delighted to emigrate to Western Europe, even if it meant moving...
Until the last minute, JPL flight controllers hoped to pull off a similar coup with Observer. But none of the probe's backup systems responded to their electronic pleas, and after Wednesday there was little hope that a response would ever come. The problem, according to space experts, is that despite elaborate backup systems, space missions have become too complex to be made foolproof. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "NASA should be doing smaller missions, more rapidly and with more limited objectives. Then if you lose one, you haven't lost everything...