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Eugene Bennett, 65, one of the city's few black Teamster leaders, gained control of the local last autumn after a power struggle with Salerno's distant cousin Frank and son Robert, a retired New York City cop. Bennett has investigated and dismantled the union's skimming arrangement, which operated through most of the 1980s. While employers were obligated to make payments on behalf of employees to the local's health and pension plans, an estimated 1,600 parking-lot attendants were kept out of the union and its funds, Bennett says. The workers, most of them illegal aliens from...
...contract, worth more than $1 million, should have been open for public bidding. It was not. Although at least one other company made an unsolicited offer to do the job more cheaply, the contract was awarded to Continental Trading, which is a subsidiary of OCAL, a company owned by distant relatives of Lacayo's. The deal was approved by the Minister of Finance, who once served OCAL as an adviser. Lacayo insists there is nothing wrong with using business contacts to get fast results. "This government is composed of businessmen," he says. "We're used to the working methods...
...proceed to build a true democracy are slimmer still. The country has no history of democracy, and the forces that now espouse it are only recent converts. While the factions in authority today may prove more progressive and able than the antiquated regime they replaced, peace and democracy remain distant goals. The Kalashnikov is sure to have its place in Ethiopia for some time to come...
...company's stores average nearly 100,000 sq. ft., or more than twice the industry average, and stock some 30,000 items. To ensure that doors, windows, bathtubs and other goods are available when customers want them, Home Depot tries to stock them in each store rather than in distant warehouses. That pleases shoppers and allows the firm to move merchandise quickly. Despite the recession, Home Depot's profits jumped from $112 million in 1989 to $163 million...
ALTHOUGH HIS plans for the distant future are uncertain, Gallagher will be going enrolling next fall in UCLA's M.A./Ph.D. program in history. Before that, he plans to travel to Israel and the Near East this summer. Career plans include such things as television journalism or a professorship...