Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, apparently issued the credits and kept the records at home. Drogoul, whose possible motives are still being investigated, has been dismissed. The Italian bank contends that it will suffer no losses from the scheme because the credits were guaranteed by U.S. and Iraqi agencies, but banking experts believe debt-laden Iraq may be hard pressed to make good if the deals go sour...
Americans who stay at home can sample the fruits of Soviet industry at trendy stores like New York City's Bloomingdale's, which in August opened a Perestroika Shop. Back-to-school shoppers could choose last week from Soviet items that included watches, sunglasses and Red Star-emblazoned sweat shirts. The department store company is now negotiating to open one or two small Bloomingdale's shops in Moscow next spring. Not to be outdone, Nathan's Famous, a New York-based fast-food chain, last week shipped a 40-ft. mobile restaurant to Moscow, where it will open Sept...
...Eurotycoons the U.S. may be an attractive investment, but for most West Europeans home is now where it's happening. Vice President Dan Quayle's campaign claim that the U.S. "is the envy of the world" puzzled many prosperous West Europeans. Though still much admired, America, with its violent streets, racial tensions, drug addiction and homelessness, is no longer the beckoning place it once was. Says Jean Manuel Bourgois, vice president of Groupe de la Cite, France's second largest publishing house: "The magic of the American dream has gone. Today Europeans find less to envy in America...
...authorities have been quick to brand as "counterrevolutionaries" students and workers who voiced far subtler sentiments, shipping them off to jail, or worse. What was so intriguing about this book, published last May, was that its author was the official Communist Youth League committee in Mao Zedong's home province of Hunan, and that copies were circulating more than three months after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Youth League officials in Beijing claimed not to know anything about the tract's origins, but they said the case was "under investigation." Said a Western diplomat: "The language is strongly reminiscent...
...Colombia others paid a high price for Barco's boldness. Luz Amparo Gomez, 29, a former investigator for the attorney general's office who was involved in a legal action against drug kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, was driving to her home when gunmen shot her to death. Hours later, the wife of a police major was gunned down outside her home. A day earlier, the wife of an intelligence officer attached to the 13th Brigade, the army unit that has spearheaded the crackdown, was murdered...