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...presidential election. Open campaigning is frowned upon, but three men are touted as front runners: Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, a former governor of the state of Mexico; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz; and Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Minister of Budget and Planning. The P.R.I., traditionally uses lavish patronage and pork-barrel politics to ensure an impressive margin of victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico A Swelling Tide of Troubles | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Amid growing anger over the decline of American service, many U.S. companies defy the trend and flourish handsomely because of the care they lavish on customers. A sampling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Customer Is Still King | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...university president and medical administrator. The death revelation, however, was certainly the oddest of the messages from on high that Roberts has reported since he launched his $250 million City of Faith Medical and Research Center in 1977. The first revelation was God's command to build the lavish complex, detailing such matters as a design with three towers of 20, 30 and 60 stories. In the next astonishing disclosure, Jesus appeared, standing "some 900 feet tall," and directed Roberts to persevere. As the need for money mounted, God ordered Roberts to require $240 from each supporter, promising "breakthroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Your Money or His Life | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth of U.S. weapons left behind when America pulled out of Viet Nam. The most prominent of all, of course, is Adnan Khashoggi, the sybaritic Saudi Arabian whose jet planes, opulent yacht, lavish parties and glamorous companions seem intended to promote his image as the world's richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Murky World of Weapons Dealers | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...Khashoggi may be in some financial trouble, but as a lavish spender he is still the global champion. An inside look at the Saudi sybarite's glittering world of jets, yachts, mansions, fabulous parties and glamorous "escorts." See World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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