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Francisco Mendes Alves Filho knew he was going to be killed. The Amazon environmentalist had already escaped three attempts on his life. The fourth, just before Christmas, proved fatal. When Mendes, 44, stepped from his house in the Brazilian jungle town of Xapuri to take a shower in his backyard, a single shot cut him down. Two police guards assigned to protect him were in the house with Mendes' wife and two of their children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: A Jungle Slaying & | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Drexel's very success led to its comeuppance. As in a Greek tragedy, the company seemed to suffer from an overabundance of hubris that concealed a fatal flaw. In Drexel's case, it was Milken's growing appetite for power and control. The turning point came in November 1986 when Ivan Boesky, a notorious Wall Street speculator, pleaded guilty to a single count of securities fraud and agreed to pay $100 million to settle SEC charges that he had used insider information to buy and sell stock. Boesky, who is serving a three-year term in a minimum-security prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Make a Deal | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...opening game features a well-devised trap. But the lad is too slithery to hold, and he is soon en route to maman, with fatal consequences for her. From that fiery shoot-out until checkmate, the contest becomes increasingly taut, vicious and engaging. At each turn, Laemmle edges closer to his goal. At every escape, Thomas becomes a little wearier, a trifle more dependent on a cast of peasants, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and devious intelligence operatives. None are so devious or inventive as he is. The most adept, of course, proves to be Quartermain, flown in to rescue the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Savory Gambits | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...what the publishing business calls a "true crime" book. Such a product should feature a victim and killer, preferably related to each other, who share the same demographics and conventions as the middle-class readership. The appeal of this sort of thing is obvious, as Joe McGinniss proved in Fatal Vision (1983), the best seller about U.S. Army Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, a physician convicted in 1979 of murdering his wife and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents in The Garden State | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...hard to imagine more odious citizens than some of those portrayed in Blind Faith. The villain of Fatal Vision had a perverse stature and a demonic intelligence that are totally lacking in McGinniss's Robert Marshall. His fabrications and the entreaties recorded on love cassettes to his mistress suggest a ludicrous absence of self-awareness. Marshall's low animal cunning hits bottom when he exploits his sons' conflict between filial loyalty and the truth about their mother's death. McGinniss makes the Marshall boys' loss of innocence the emotional center of an otherwise lurid and coldhearted book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents in The Garden State | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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