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Rodriguez insisted that Escobar wanted to kill him too. En route to our meeting, he told us, he had changed cars three times. His family celebrates birthdays on the wrong days, and he dares not spend Christmas with his seven grown children lest the target prove too tempting to Escobar. He divides his time among six or seven houses in Cali and maintains round-the-clock security. "God and good intentions aren't enough to shoo away evil," he said. "You've got to have firepower...
...Yeltsin's victory could backfire. By winning control over Russia's coal mines, Yeltsin inherits an industry steeped in debt and badly in need of modernization. And the miners voted to suspend their strike for only two months, lest Yeltsin prove no better than Gorbachev at settling grievances...
...billion in American-held assets frozen in 1979. But Rafsanjani cannot easily reverse 12 years of violent rhetoric directed against the "Great Satan." So while government officials have toned down the + diatribes against the U.S. in the hope of better relations, they still lash out now and again lest the contradictions become too obvious. Two weeks ago, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the country's new spiritual leader, declared, "The U.S. will never have normal relations with a system that has made Islamic values its most cherished desire...
...sympathetic to the enormous task the IRS is charged with," I wrote back, "but as you can imagine, it is hard for me to understand what Mr. Majors' esophagus might have to do with the error on Schedule E of my return." I went on to explain that, lest this turn into some sort of nightmare in which I awoke one day to find my home being loaded onto a truck, & I was enclosing the disputed amount due, plus interest -- but that I'd still appreciate knowing, at their convenience, what the alleged error was on my Schedule...
...raise a new Kuwait, representatives of the mightiest trading nation on earth have been sitting out the action. Major Japanese companies have not even participated in the bidding for reconstruction work in the devastated gulf country. Government leaders have warned Japanese firms against joining the rush for jobs lest they be seen as kajiba dorobo, or thieves who steal from a fire. "We won't take any initiative," says an official of a Japanese engineering company. "If Kuwait approaches us, we'll go. But for now we want to just wait...