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...center of the city's social life. The club's private boxes and formal restaurants, scattered throughout the organization's two first-class horse-racing stadiums, are among the top local spots to be seen in, cozy venues where ?lite HKJC members schmooze over racks of lamb and roasted guinea fowl. Meanwhile, in the stands below, million-dollar thoroughbreds saunter around the paddock under the watchful gaze of the masses, who habitually turn up for meets in hopes of winning enough on a long shot to qualify to join the club themselves...
MARK THATCHER, SON OF FORMER BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been charged with helping finance a plot to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, President of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea [Sept. 6]. Nguema's regime is undemocratic, but Thatcher and his wealthy friends did not have any legitimacy to overthrow it. The U.S., however, by deciding unilaterally and without the approval of the U.N. to topple the bloody and dictatorial regime of Saddam, has provided a poor example to the world. What will now stop regional powers--or even individuals--from intervening in neighboring countries? A proper, legal vision of intervention...
...that involve Poland. Przemyslaw Grudzinski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the U.S. Washington A New Legitimacy Needed Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been charged with helping to finance a plot to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the President of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea [Sept. 6]. Nguema's regime is undemocratic, but Thatcher and his wealthy friends did not have any legitimacy to overthrow it. The U.S., however, by deciding unilaterally to topple the bloody and dictatorial regime of Saddam, has provided a poor example to the world. What will now stop regional powers...
...SIMON MANN, 51, British former special forces soldier and supplier of security and military services; to seven years in prison; in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mann was arrested in March at Harare airport as he tried to take delivery of a $180,000 arms consignment, allegedly for a coup in Equatorial Guinea. The 65 suspected mercenaries arrested along with him were sentenced to 12 months in prison. RETIRING. MICHAEL EISNER, 62, CEO of the Walt Disney Co. for 20 years; when his contract expires in September 2006; in Los Angeles. Although he is credited with transforming the company into a media powerhouse...
CHARGED. MARK THATCHER, 51, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; with helping finance a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea; in Cape Town, South Africa. The ex--race car driver, whose business career has been dogged by accusations of questionable arms deals and other shady ventures, was placed under house arrest in Cape Town, where he moved two years...