Word: latelies
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...budget and allowed access to the secrets of advanced Japanese radar gear and composite materials. But Bush wants further assurances that American firms will receive 40% of the $5 billion to $10 billion in production contracts for as many as 170 fighters, which are to be deployed in the late 1990s...
...late Orson Welles was, in the nostalgic phrase, a star of stage, screen and radio. He was also one of those grand, self-inflating talents whose failures received almost as much attention as his successes. His long, attenuated career covered the spectrum, from classics to commercials. Old- timers still remember his controversial rejiggerings of Shakespeare and his War of the Worlds radio drama, which had many listeners believing New Jersey had been invaded by Martians. And, of course, every generation has embraced Citizen Kane, his brilliant 1941 film based on the life and times of press lord William Randolph Hearst...
...Late on the morning of Saturday, April 8, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker, awoke with a stomachache. It was a telling omen. As Felix Gallardo pulled open the bedroom curtains of his house in Guadalajara, two police lookouts from a twelve-man task force gave the signal. The agents jumped over a neighbor's wall and broke down the back door, surprising Felix Gallardo on the staircase of his two-story home. He was still in his pajamas. Pinned to the floor, he begged his captors to kill him. When they refused, he offered them...
...blow struck against Mexico's most powerful drug lord was the latest in a series of headline-grabbing actions initiated by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari since he took office late last year. In January, after a sensational shoot-out in Ciudad Madero, police arrested Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, known as "La Quina," the powerful and widely feared leader of Mexico's oil workers' union. A month later Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert, a top businessman with ties to the Salinas government, was jailed on charges of stock fraud. What La Quina, Legorreta and Felix Gallardo have in common is that they...
North's hope is that the jury will believe that most of his secret actions ; were approved by President Reagan, former National Security Advisers John Poindexter and Robert McFarlane and the late CIA Director William Casey. After North's testimony, the defense rested, setting the stage this week for closing arguments and jury deliberations. They are likely to turn on a difficult question: Is Ollie North, who admitted lying to protect the contras, now telling the truth...