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This year's Cornfield exposé cost the Sunday Times $60,000 and the team nine months. They interviewed more than 500 bankers, brokers and other sources and got additional reports from a score of Sunday Times correspondents from La Paz to Seoul. "At the stage where other papers are ready to publish, we're just beginning to dig," explains "Insight" Editor Barry. In the Philby story, for example, they did not rest their case after the cloak-and-dagger investigation was ended. They went on to examine Kim Philby's background and early life...
With a swiftness born of practice, the Andean capital of La Paz returned to normal last week after a bloody three-day coup d'état that left 110 dead and 600 wounded. Little evidence remained of the bitter fighting, except for the assault vehicles guarding La Paz University, where students loyal to deposed President Juan José Torres holed up in a futile battle that ended when seven were killed. Torres himself went the way of many of his predecessors: he flew off to exile in Peru...
Laver lost 19 of his first 21 pro matches, and tennis seemed a terrible grind. In his new book, The Education of a Tennis Player, he recalls nosebleeds and oddly flying shots in the 12,000-ft. heights of La Paz, Bolivia, where "we killed ourselves to win a $600 watch, blood streaming down our faces and the balls zooming everywhere." In Khartoum he and three other pros played for a share of $1,000 in a match that ended with a "bug curfew" -a descending swarm of angry insects. He tells of matches on makeshift courts that were...
...agree with the aims of the demonstration," Octavio Paz; the Mexican poet, said when he heard the news of the fighting. "It seems a political error - but such repression is intolerable." While student meetings were held on all the city's university campuses today, it seemed unlikely that demonstrators would venture out into the heavily patrolled streets...
...wise in its choices. But it does not have a reputation for love of democracy. When in 1965 party chief Carlos Madrazo proposed a system for gubernatorial primaries in Mexican states he was ousted and several years later killed in a plane crash of mysterious origins. Mexican philosopher Octavio Paz compared PRI to the ancient Aztecs. Both, he said, controlled the whole country from the Valley of Mexico (where Mexico City is today), and both have used violence liberally to maintain their power...