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...Rupert Murdoch, the owner of 87 newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States. His holdings outside the United States include The Australian, Australia's only national newspaper, and The News of the World, which has a Sunday circulation--the largest in London--of somewhere around 3.5 million and is quite possibly the worst newspaper in the world. In this country, Murdoch controls The National Star, modeled after The National Enquirer (supermarket checkout aisle journalism), and the San Antonio News-Express. This week Murdoch is splashed across the covers of both Time and Newsweek, on one as King Kong...
...Reserve Board. Yadlin was arrested for fraud and bribery, and is currently awaiting trial. The most serious charge against him is that three years ago he allegedly accepted a $30,000 bribe in return for an engineering contract; at that time he was head of the nation's largest medical-insurance organization...
Without Vice. Italy's banking community expressed shock last week at the arrest of Aloisi, who is widely known as un uomo senza vizi (a man without vice) and a financial wizard. Deputy chairman of one of Italy's largest banks, the elegant, British-tailored Aloisi runs several corporations, owns a racing stable and a famed Via Veneto watering place, the Caffe Doney...
...found almost as much coffee to import as ever. To shore up their shaky economies, however, Brazil and other coffee-producing nations have increased export taxes on beans and reaped windfalls. Brazil's tax per pound has jumped from 22? to 75? Colombia, the second largest producer, now demands $1.47 per pound in taxes. Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Frederick W. Richmond, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, charges that "this is a crisis dreamed up by coffee-exporting nations to gouge the American consumer...
...midyear. The Saudis and the U.A.E. limited their increase to 5% for the full year. Thus, for the first time since OPEC began quintupling petroleum prices in late 1973, the oil cartel split into opposing camps. In order to hold down prices, the Saudis, who are OPEC'S largest producer (8.5 million bbl. per day) and the possessor of the world's largest proven reserves (151.8 billion bbl.), threatened to increase production in order to lure customers away from their higher-priced rivals. So far, there are these signs that the Saudi strategy is working...