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...three daughters, Sandra. In a Latin equivalent of the royal wedding, she was to marry the son of a general of the Dominican Republic at a lavish Sunday ceremony. The wedding, however, did not come off as planned. Instead, Sandra was married without fanfare at midweek, evidently to avoid the demonstrations that have become an almost daily feature of life in Panama City, the country's steamy capital...
...most stunning revelations, however, were those unveiled two days later by the Los Angeles police. In a dramatic midweek press conference, Chief Daryl Gates revealed a three-month investigation that had linked ZZZZ Best to the drug-profit laundering operation. As the police tell it, ZZZZ Best was probably acting as a front for organized crime figures, who would buy equipment for the company with "dirty" money and replace their investment with "clean" cash skimmed from the proceeds of the firm's legitimate business. According to Gates, the spectacular growth in revenues that led to Minkow's fame...
Twice last week the ten-member Israeli inner Cabinet met to debate the issue, and twice the sessions ended in stalemate. Peres threatened to break up the coalition and call new elections if the inner Cabinet failed to support him on the peace proposal. But by midweek he lacked a handful of the 61 votes in the 120-member Knesset needed to bring about early elections. With Labor short of sufficient support, party officials feared that Likud, with the help of some small religious parties, would then be able to hang on until November 1988. Before leaving...
Opposition candidates began to denounce the elections as a fraud as soon as the first projections were announced. Accusing the government of widespread cheating, Enrile called the vote a "failure" and warned that it would lead to "instability of unimaginable magnitude." At a midweek rally, while his supporters shouted "Down with Aquino!," Enrile branded the election the "dirtiest in the nation's history." Next day, at a rally of 20,000 protesters in suburban Quezon City, Enrile declared, "Let us not stop until the cheaters have been punished." Enrile, whom Aquino dismissed as Defense Minister last November after his alleged...
...soon graced newsstands across the country. Hart was forced to concede that he had also taken an overnight boat trip from Miami to Bimini with Rice and two other people on a yacht called Monkey Business. But the final blow came when a Washington Post reporter called campaign officials midweek with evidence of a recent liaison between Hart and a Washington woman. The threat of further revelations prompted Hart and his plucky wife Lee to suspend campaigning in New Hampshire and fly to Denver for the ritual hoisting of the white flag...