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While the New York and Chicago probes are being handled by two different collaborations of Government agencies, the groups are looking for many of the same kinds of illicit trading techniques. One tactic believed to be under investigation is "front running," in which traders assure profits by executing trades for their own accounts before they carry out their customers' orders...
Arafat's statement nonetheless provoked a predictable outcry from Palestinian radicals. "We shall show Arafat and the world that the P.L.O. charter remains very much alive," said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In the past two weeks gunmen in Lebanon assassinated Bassam Hourani, a commander of Arafat's Force 17 security arm, and launched attacks on two other Arafat aides...
...political front, U.S. optimism also seems misplaced. Some experts are worried that the mujahedin leader who has received the lion's share of U.S. support, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is a fanatic Muslim who might turn out to be Afghanistan's version of the Ayatullah Khomeini. Others wonder whether the mujahedin coalition, linked by hatred of the Najibullah regime, could stay together long enough to form an effective government...
...England's Simon Rattle, 34, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain; and Russian-born Semyon Bychkov, 36, who this month will jump from the Buffalo Philharmonic to the Orchestre de Paris. All must wait until a death or a retirement creates an opening in the front ranks...
...claim a triumph in the second round of elections at the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences. After weeks of debate, academy members finally voted Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov one of their 20 seats in the congress. Independent deputies and supporters of such unofficial groups as the popular front movements in the Baltic States have already gathered in Moscow to discuss forming a loose parliamentary bloc called the March Coalition. The group could attract as many as 10% of the members of the new Congress of People's Deputies, presenting Gorbachev with something akin to an organized opposition...