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...Chlapowski became the second top executive to be ousted in nine months; the next day board chairman Andres Leuenberger resigned. The 145-year-old company's share price has plunged 80% this year, and investors have turned their wrath on the board and management as investigators have widened their probe into accounting errors and a secret investment scheme that some executives allegedly used to enrich themselves. New CEO Rolf Dörig certainly doesn't have an enviable task. The company will press ahead with a sorely needed rights issue to raise up to $825 million this week, even...
...Washington. The famously secretive spy master plotted to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende and assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro with, among other things, poisoned cigars. Domestically, Helms headed a legally dubious scheme to spy on anti--Vietnam War activists. Fired by President Nixon for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate break-in, he was later found guilty of covering up spy operations in Cuba and Chile to congressional investigators. The conviction, Helms said, was "like a badge of honor...
...took police 18 years to nab the Unabomber. At just 22 days, the sniper probe was comparatively speedy; still, it snaked through numerous wrong turns and culs...
...Bali, meanwhile, the probe into the tragedy continues. Last week, police released sketches of three possible suspects and detained one, an Indonesian man with shoulder-length hair, for questioning. And the bomb site is now being cleared in advance of a traditional ritual prescribed to spiritually cleanse the island after a mortal enemy attack. Priests plan to slaughter a deer, a bull, a cow, a goat, a turtle, a pig, a white swan, a red swan and a black dog with a black tongue, and each household on the island will erect bamboo poles laden with fruits, flowers and palm...
MANNER OF DEATH This always falls into one of four categories: suicide, homicide, natural or accidental. Often the manner is fairly apparent. Sometimes, though, a homicide may be disguised as a suicide, forcing investigators to probe deeper...