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...Haitian junta, there is talk of a possible multilateral OAS military operation to put Aristide back in charge. The ousted Haitian President says he does not favor it, but some countries are not feeling constrained. Venezuela apparently meant what it said about taking the "most severe measures." General Fernando Ochoa Antich, the Venezuelan Defense Minister, announced after the OAS meeting that he had been ordered to prepare for possible multilateral action in Haiti. "The armed forces," he said, "are right now carrying out the planning of a possible regional military operation." President Perez promised to offer his troops...
Nothing's more nettlesome to a politician than a wife who gets more press attention than he does. Perhaps that is why Brazilian President FERNANDO COLLOR DE MELLO has been appearing in public recently without a wedding band . . . or his 26-year-old second wife Rosane. Last week the Sao Paulo-based newsmagazine Veja featured photos of the scantily clad First Lady, noting presidential pique with her high-profile antics. Fernando, observers speculate, jettisoned the ring in order to distance himself from rumors about his wife's alleged mishandling of funds for a government-sponsored charity. Rosane, however, professes marital...
Doubt was first cast on Garcia last April when House Deputy Fernando Olivera charged that Garcia had stolen $50 million from the treasury while serving as President. Olivera maintained that Garcia channeled the funds through the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Olivera's charges have yet to be substantiated, but the ensuing publicity made Garcia one of the most prominent politicians to be touched by the B.C.C.I. scandal...
...Washington and London. In Peru the scandal reinvigorated charges that Garcia, President of the country from 1985 to 1990, had plundered the treasury by whisking funds through a B.C.C.I. branch in Panama. Garcia has called the allegations a political smear to keep him from running again in 1995. But Fernando Olivera, a member of the Peruvian Congress who has been Garcia's nemesis, demanded last week that prosecutors try the allegations in court. Among other things, investigators want to know how Garcia managed to acquire two fashionable Lima homes and take frequent foreign vacations on a presidential salary of just...
...have gone to pay bribes to stifle a four-year-old investigation of a major B.C.C.I. client, coffee smuggler and arms merchant Munther Bilbeisi. "If the $30 million was given to corrupt public officials and that can be proved, then the loan should be wiped out or reduced," says Fernando Arevalo Reina of the Guatemalan Attorney General's office. (Bilbeisi has denied any wrongdoing...