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...part, Mexico, even as its diplomats fulminated about the dire consequences of decertification, took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan...
...Maria de los Angeles Montes, principal of Boston's Lucy Stone Elementary School, said the lack of minority teachers at public schools in districts with a large minority population is a key problem...
...romance of diplomacy! In France, Foreign Minister Herve de Charette gave Madeleine Albright five pecks (four on the cheek, one on the hand). In Moscow, Yasser Arafat one-upped him by bestowing six busses on Boris Yeltsin (three on the cheek, three on the forehead). A new warmth in foreign relations...
...Latin America. For three years running it was voted "Europe's most respected company" in a poll of executives by the Financial Times newspaper. The structure Barnevik devised to run this globe-girdling behemoth "has become a new prototype for the post-industrial-age corporation," says Manfred Kets de Vries of the INSEAD business school outside Paris...
Before coming to CSN, Marques was finance secretary for the city of Rio de Janeiro--a job of Augean proportions. When she arrived in 1993, city coffers held a paltry $5 million. In two years' time, Marques--earning the epithet "the Billion-Dollar Woman"--turned Rio's battered fortunes completely around, cutting wasteful programs, renegotiating service contracts and declaring war on tax dodgers. By the time she left, the city's reserves were pumped up to $1.2 billion...