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President Virgilio Barco Vargas' four-month-old war against his country's top narcos -- Gacha, Pablo Escobar Gaviria and the three brothers of Medellin's Ochoa family -- has not gone as well as he or the nation had hoped. Since Mob hit men assassinated presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in August and ignited Barco's offensive, the leaders of Colombia's coke cartels have gone into hiding, forfeiting posh estates and bank accounts; some law- enforcement officials believe that the drug princes have even undergone plastic surgery. Nevertheless, Gacha and company remain immensely powerful, with their pipeline...
...board's San Francisco office to Washington, postponing the closing of the savings and loan by two years. That delay will add $1.3 billion to the taxpayers' cost of repaying depositors and unloading Lincoln's washed-out investments. "My responsibility was to see that this was not a lynch mob after Keating," Wall explained to TIME last week. "The San Francisco office has a history of being hysterical, overzealous, swept away by smoke where there is no gun." Yet ; Wall's Washington audit eventually confirmed San Francisco's warning to the Senators that Lincoln was a "ticking time bomb." Wall...
...segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Della Reese -- and cast them as the management of a club too prosperous for its own good. A powerful white mob is trying to move in on them...
Perhaps too hard. In the varied scandals involving improper political influence that have beset the capital, one name keeps popping up: Alfonse D'Amato. Last week D'Amato even became entangled in New York City's increasingly nasty mayoralty contest between Republican Rudolph Giuliani, the Mob-busting former U.S. Attorney, and Democrat David Dinkins. D'Amato conceded that he had telephoned Giuliani in 1984 and 1985 to pass along pleas for a review of charges or reduced prison sentences for Mobsters Paul Castellano and Mario Gigante. Giuliani refused to intercede...
Alexis de Tocqueville neatly outlined every consequence of randomization 133 years ago in his immortal Old Regime and the French Revolution. As the book clearly shows, randomization could be the crucial step that turns University Hall into the greatest center of despotic power since the Parisian mob stormed Versailles...