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...which allowed McCaw customers to pick their own long-distance carriers. But when Bingaman has actually gone to court, the results have not been stellar. Two months ago, she suffered a humiliating defeat after suing General Electric on charges it conspired with DeBeers of South Africa to fix industrial diamond prices. Before the companies had even presented their defense, a federal judge dismissed the case, complaining that the government's evidence was too weak...
...Channel, the Ice Capades and KaloVita, a venture selling vitamins and skin creams from the Holy Land), and ADC is a private enterprise formed to look into investments in mining, lumber, agriculture, transportation and power generation, with an eye to plowing the profits back into humanitarian efforts. A nascent diamond-mining operation in Zaire is a project of the ADC. Located on a river southeast of the boomtown of Tshikapa in the heart of Zaire's diamond country, the project uses state-of-the-art dredges and diving equipment. Robertson is also exploring gold interests on the upper Zaire...
...would expect to find diamonds on the souls of evangelical American missionaries in Zaire? Situated in the bull's-eye of Africa, Zaire has 43 million citizens scratching out a living on roughly $500 a year apiece. Zaire's cruel, old-style dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, however, does not subsist on $500 a year--he has many millions stashed away, and right now he makes a decent income off his country's roughly $300 million-a-year diamond trade. Now, with Mobutu's permission, Zaire's diamond business has a new entrant--Pat Robertson, the American televangelist and ex-presidential...
...shrugs off her precocious exploits. She is the rare dancer who could also be a model, and she enjoys occasional fashion shoots. Designers compete to have her wear their creations. A recent issue of London's Tatler magazine showed her with a diamond as big as the Ritz-between her teeth. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's most recent honors list, a remarkable achievement for a 25-year...
LONDON. Oscar Wilde, who ended his life in obloquy, will be honored with a place in Westminster Abbey's memorial window near Poets' Corner next week. The Valentine's Day unveiling of a diamond-shape glass plaque inscribed with his name and dates of birth and death will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opening night of his comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's pane joins those dedicated to Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick in the window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord...