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...many Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, fiery leader of El Salvador's fiercest right-wing faction, represents the dangerous pitfalls of U.S. support for that troubled country. Somewhat similarly, Edén Pastora Gómez, the maverick "Commander Zero" of the Nicaraguan revolution who later took up arms against his victorious comrades, has come to illustrate the troubles of Washington's covert effort to put pressure on the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Both of these flamboyant figures happened to be in Washington last week just after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut aid to anti-Sandinista contra...
Fitzgerald also testified that on a 1982 tour of a Hughes Aircraft plant in Tucson, he discovered that the company was taking 17.2 hours to do what its own engineers said should take one hour to accomplish in the production of the $892,000 infrared imaging Maverick missile. A Hughes spokesman said Fitzgerald's assertion was untrue. Overall, Fitzgerald estimated, there is about 30% waste in most military contracts. His calculation of the cost to taxpayers: as much as $30 billion a year...
Kohl praised Lambsdorff, then moved quickly to replace him. The Chancellor's choice: Martin Bangemann, 49, a lawyer and maverick F.D.P. leader from Baden-Wurttemberg. Bangemann became available for the Economics portfolio after he lost his seat in the European Parliament in elections two weeks...
Despite last week's meeting, the Latin American countries do not form a united and cohesive bloc. While the two heaviest debtors, Brazil ($93.1 billion) and Mexico ($89.8 billion), have taken drastic measures to rein in their runaway economies, Argentina ($45.3 billion) is still a maverick. Two weeks ago, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín rejected an IMF austerity demand for cuts in wages and government spending, which was designed to curb his country's 568% inflation rate. Alfonsín sent the IMF a plan that promised workers 6% to 8% wage increases...
Shannon could also build his vote at the expense of Connolly, who is something of a maverick politician who commands a small but loyal following, mostly in Boston...