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...rigid with rage, told Parliament he knew nothing of rampant fraud at B.C.C.I. until shortly before July 5, when regulators closed the $20 billion rogue bank in most of the 69 countries where it operated. In Peru the scandal breathed new life into charges that former President Alan Garcia Perez had used B.C.C.I. accounts to loot as much as $50 million from the country's treasury...
...B.C.C.I. debacle even rubbed off on the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Javier Perez de Cuellar. The U.N. sullenly confirmed reports that Perez de Cuellar twice took trips in 1986 and 1987 on planes owned by Pharaon. The diplomat has said he was unaware at the time of problems at B.C.C.I...
...countryside the Sandinistas grabbed ranches and farms. Wilfredo Lopez Palma, an assembly deputy, took 2,650 acres in the department of Rivas. Luis Felipe Perez, the Sandinista mayor of the city of Leon, acquired a 600-acre farm. Mario Hurtado Jimenez, who headed the state Corporation of Aviculture, leased a chicken farm to himself on easy-to-pay terms. His rent: 500 dozen eggs a month...
Quayle's real mission called for considerable diplomatic skill. He lobbied Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez to increase his country's oil production to make up for any shortfall resulting from the disruption in the gulf. Then, in two separate meetings, he pressed the leaders of Brazil and Argentina to stop transfers of ballistic-missile technology to Iraq. Within days, all three nations had complied with Quayle's requests...
Obviously afraid that just such a reading might stick, Javier Perez de Cuellar, the U.N. Secretary-General, has played a neat card: he asked Saddam for permission to police a part of his country. That Perez de Cuellar received the disastrous and predictable answer to a question he should never have asked testifies either to the U.N.'s underlying unwillingness to do what is right, or to Perez de Cuellar's fecklessness...