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...surfaced June 15, four days before the election, when an unidentified man handed them to Pastrana during a campaign stop in Cali. Exactly who recorded the telephone conversations remains unclear. Pastrana presented them to Gaviria on June 17. The President in turn gave them to Prosecutor-General Gustavo de Greiff, the controversial director of Colombia's antinarcotics effort, to check their authenticity. After his election loss, Pastrana made them public. "Let's bring them out in the open and get to the bottom of it," he said at a news conference. That exercise required some explanation from Pastrana, whose campaign...
Eighteen bombings rocked Bogota last week as the cocaine warlords stepped up their counterattack against the government's crackdown on drug traffickers. But the frightened citizens of Colombia were also rattled by word that Justice Minister Monica de Greiff had resigned her post, just two months after taking the job. De Greiff, 32, quit after receiving numerous death threats to herself, her Argentine husband and their three-year...
While a disappointment to some, De Greiff's resignation was not unexpected. Before visiting the U.S. in late August, she handed President Virgilio Barco Vargas an open-dated resignation. Barco requested that she stay on until he found a replacement. Last week he did, naming Communications Minister Carlos Lemos Simmonds as the interim Justice Minister. If Lemos Simmonds agrees to accept the post formally, he will be Colombia's ninth Justice Minister in three years...
Useful Garbage. Dealer Sam Greiff, who last year bought 2,120,000 surplus Zippers for $120,000, is slowly making a killing by selling them at cut rates to jacket manufacturers, is known in the trade as the Zipper King. Greiff has just bought 400,000 Army coat fronts (stiffening material for jackets) for $15,000, is now also known as the Stiffened Coat Front King. In a world where everyone is a king of some product, the king of kings is Eddie Tarashinsky, 43, whose father pioneered the surplus business in 1904, and whose twelve New York warehouses...