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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bosses have escaped jail. When Gilberto was arrested in Spain in November 1984, the Colombian government went to great lengths to prevent his extradition to the U.S. According to a Rodriguez friend, Gilberto's son Jaime Fernando appealed to then President Belisario Betancur for help. Betancur declined comment. The elder Rodriguez says, "If Betancur helped in seeing I was extradited to Colombia and not the U.S., he was simply doing his duty as President, supporting an extradition order issued by a Colombian judge." Back in Cali, Rodriguez was tried on charges identical to those filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cali Cartel: New Kings of Coke | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...what appears to be legitimate business fronts. According to Japanese press reports, one such business is West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based real estate firm that has bought into two American companies with the help of an unusually well-placed U.S. middleman: Prescott Bush Jr., 68, the President's elder brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: My Brother, The Middleman | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...release of 60 more hours of White House tapes came as a timely reminder that Nixon is not simply an author and global analyst but an unindicted co-conspirator who is lucky to have escaped prison. Listen to any random conversation, on any day, and the mask of respectable elder statesman melts away to reveal a deceitful, lowbrow, vindictive character, dangerously armed with the full power of the IRS, FBI and CIA, and all too willing to use it. Audit his enemies, he orders. "We have to do it artfully so that we don't create an issue by abusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watergate Revisited: Notes from Underground | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...presidential candidate looks for a complementary running mate, someone to shore up a weak side -- to lend geographical or ideological balance, for example. Conservative Californian Ronald Reagan picked Connecticut-Texas moderate George Bush. It may be a matter of ages, aesthetics, chemistry and coloring, as well as political alliances. Elder, moderate, military statesman Dwight Eisenhower chose younger, nastier, darker, feistier conservative Richard Nixon. At some time down the line, national tickets will be balanced by sex and race as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Destiny Of a Vice President | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

However, according to O'Neill, the only action available to municipal politicians and officials who want to block the consolidation is to lobby state lawmakers, who control the purse strings of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs. "All we can do is put pressure," he said...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Elderly Service Consolidation Appears Imminent | 5/15/1991 | See Source »

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