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...scandal came to the surface in August, when Salvador Barragán Camacho, leader of the powerful Oil Workers' Union of the Mexican Republic, accused fellow Union Executive Héctor García Hernandez (alias El Trampas, the trickster) of stealing some $6.6 million in union funds. The overweight, droopy-eyed García promptly sold most of his Mexican assets, then crossed the border to his $250,000 town house in McAllen, Texas. There, García fired off a letter to President De la Madrid accusing Barragán and the alleged behind-the-scenes "godfather...
What is now needed, in the view of some experts, is a system that would be more flexible than Bretton Woods and less volatile than the present regime of freely floating rates. One such arrangement was proposed last month by John Williamson, a senior fellow of the Institute for International Economics. It calls for countries to maintain their exchange rates within a range that would be much broader than the limits set by Bretton Woods, but much narrower than the recent wide oscillations of the dollar. Then, if a currency's value got too far out of line, that...
...selling control, at "a modest profit," to the California-based McClatchy chain. So when Fanning left Alaska in May to take on the job of editor of the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor-making it the most prestigious top-editor post in American newspapering now held by a woman-fellow news executives predicted that she would bring her brand of vigorous change to the venerable (founded 1908) but stodgy daily. The Man itor commands an elite following for its international coverage and political analysis and enjoys unusual access to news figures because of its reputation for fairness. But the paper...
Just how far the pendulum has swung is evident in Available Light, which travels to the Brooklyn Academy of Music later this month. Childs, who collaborated earlier with fellow avant-gardists such as Composer Philip Glass and Theater Artist Robert Wilson, is a cool rationalist who favors organizational clarity over overt emotionalism. The repeating patterns that ripple through her dances are imitated and finally dispersed like waves spreading across a pond. There are no kicks, leaps or pronounced extension. Childs' dynamic level rarely rises above a whispered pianissimo...
...what does that cryptic phrase signify? Presumably, the athletic-looking fellow wearing it must either have inherited the valuable garment or have taken a leave of absence; for the explanation, let's go back to one of the Crimson's most miserable Saturdays, October...