Word: dreyfuses
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...know who would win.") An advocate of "corraborative detail," she uncovers and utilizes insignificant facts to crystallize the details of a scene and make the reader feel a part of it. ("When I was investigating General Mercier, the Minister of War who was responsible for the original condemnation of Dreyfus and who in the course of the Affair became the hero of the Right, I discovered that at parties of the haut monde ladies rose to their feet when General Mercier entered the room. That is the kind of detail which to me is worth a week of research...
...four business leaders were COSEP Directors Enrique Dreyfus, Benjamin Lanzas, Gilberto Cuadra and Enrique Bolanos. All had strongly supported the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. They had also advocated a mixed economy of socialism and free enterprise to rebuild Nicaragua's war-torn economy. But from the beginning, according to a Sandinista document, the government had planned to give the capitalists free rein only until it was able to take over the economy. COSEP members saw their control whittled away by nationalizations of banks, some industry and agricultural holdings. The economy became dependent upon an estimated $450 million...
Last November, Jorge Salazar, a respected business leader, was gunned down by government security forces for allegedly supplying arms to counterrevolutionaries. Salazar's death united COSEP against the Sandinistas. Last February COSEP's Dreyfus criticized the Sandinistas for allowing manufacturing to drop 35% below government projections. Said he: "All this is the consequence of financial indiscipline in a government which is in the process of reconstructing the country...
...concerted efforts of conservatives to get Mitterrand to change his mind failed. Throughout the summer, businessmen had lobbied Premier Pierre Mauroy, Finance Minister Jacques Delors and Industry Minister Pierre Dreyfus, all moderates who were thought to consider the nationalization plan excessive. The Conseil d'Etat, a 199-man body that advises the government on the constitutionality of legislation, warned that it might be discriminatory to take over French companies while leaving foreign ones in private hands. But Mitterrand remained loyal to a central plank in the Common Program he signed with the Communists in 1972. Declared the President last...
...additional $2.3 billion in corporate tax revenues will be lost as a result of Reagan's tax program. The net effect, charged Brown, is that of a "shell game" that "shifts the burden of federal cutbacks to state and local government." Bill Krause, aide to Wisconsin's Dreyfus, was even blunter: "We aren't getting more powers, just more bills. Shift and shaft...