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...stage a peaceful demonstration to demand the release of Black Politician Nelson Mandela, he was arrested under a law that permits the authorities to hold him indefinitely. Mandela, a principal leader of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), has been in prison for more than 20 years. In a further crackdown, the government outlawed the country's largest organization of black secondary school pupils, the Congress of South African Students. The group is an affiliate of the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.), the multiracial antiapartheid organization that has been at the center of the current protests...
...that Gorbachev seems to favor. At a time when the families of other Georgian officials lived in splendid villas and drove around in limousines, Shevardnadze's wife Nanuli, a journalist, was said to take the bus to work. Although he is both admired and disliked in Georgia for his crackdown on corruption, early this year he felt confident enough of his position to authorize a newspaper poll of public reaction to his policies, a rare and unorthodox action for a Soviet party official...
...numbers in company records for accuracy, and describes his findings in a letter that becomes part of the annual report. The Security and Exchange Commission last week accused Price Waterhouse, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious auditors, of not doing its job. As part of a crackdown on financial fraud, the agency charged that the company had winked at errors in the 1980 financial statements of AM International, a maker of copiers and other graphics equipment. AM entered bankruptcy proceedings in 1982 and was reorganized and emerged in 1984. It earned $67 million in its most recent...
...penalty, one of the toughest ever for embezzlement, is part of a federal crackdown on white-collar crime. Said Judge Thomas: "The fact that you used multiple frauds to obtain millions from your own banks warrants a sentence comparable to one that would be imposed on a person who uses violence to obtain a far smaller amount of money from one of your banks...
...crackdown hardly came as a surprise. In recent months the Soviet press has been railing against alcohol abuse and condemning the country's passion for vodka, or, as Soviets often call it, the green serpent, for the creature it can evoke. Excessive drinking is described as the leading cause of divorce, violent crime and accidental death. Soviet statistics also suggest that alcohol abuse is the main reason that male life expectancy, which is on the rise in all other industrialized nations, has dropped from 67 years to 62 over the past 20 years. Says a Western diplomat based in Moscow...