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Several ministers, including those of China, Australia and Japan, backed a recommendation by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to dispatch a "reconnaissance mission" to Cambodia immediately to lay the groundwork for an "international control mechanism...
Rose made himself the star of the team and, in company with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, turned the mid-'70s into a golden age. Their habit was to rag each other and everyone else at the batting cage, a merciless system that worked for them but ruined some humbler talents. If a wittier but lesser player tried to hold his own, they would trumpet their salaries in unison. It was another way of keeping score...
...there no end to the dark doings of Jose Antonio Zorrilla Perez? Last month the former head of the powerful Federal Security Directorate was arrested in Mexico as a suspect in the 1984 assassination of journalist Manuel Buendia. Now a U.S. grand jury is investigating allegations that Zorrilla was also involved in the death of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985. According to DEA informants, Zorrilla knew in advance of Camarena's kidnaping. One source added that Camarena's interrogator was in direct contact with Zorrilla. If proved, the allegations would support the theory that Camarena...
Five years ago, when Manuel Buendia, Mexico's most influential political columnist, was gunned down, Jose Antonio Zorrilla Perez was on the scene within minutes. As head of the Federal Security Directorate (DFS), Zorrilla was Mexico's top cop, but his quick arrival seemed suspicious, since his agency did not have jurisdiction in the case. That did not stop DFS operatives from raiding Buendia's office anyway...
...accent her trim figure and filling her home with antique furniture and endless mementos of her husband. A sought-after speaker on the international journalists' circuit, she spends much of her time outside the country, often popping up at gala occasions like the inauguration of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, a longtime friend. When at home, she is driven to the paper's run-down plant each morning in a blue Toyota jeep. In her air- conditioned office, she puts her feet up to relieve her painful osteoarthritic condition. And, constantly sipping ice water, she scans editorials, signs checks...