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BORN: Feb. 11, 1967, Auburn, N.Y. EDUCATION: Cornell U, B.S., 1989 FAMILY: Wife, Amy; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Insurance agent; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 426 Harvey Street, Punta Gorda...
...financial empire using the country's booming tourism industry as a kind of giant dry-cleaning service for narcotics profits. Traffickers and the politicians who protect them launder billions of dollars every year by investing vast sums in beach resorts, financial markets, shopping centers and other enterprises, such as Punta Diamante, a resort in the state of Guerrero that many investigators believe is financed with drug money. It is also widely assumed that drug traffickers who fiddled with Mexico's financial markets were responsible for some of the capital flight last year that hastened the collapse of the peso...
...give the institution new life, some 100 nations representing more than 85% of world trade are engaged in the most ambitious trade-liberalizing talks ever, which began four years ago at the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este. But with only two months left to complete the negotiations, the lofty spirit of the so-called Uruguay Round is bogged down in protectionist politics. The sticking points: how to limit agricultural subsidies, reduce protection for textiles and write new rules for trade in services. Last week President Bush warned against a breakdown in the talks. The Uruguay Round, he said...
...last comparable meeting of the Western Hemisphere's leaders took place in 1967 in Punta del Este, Uruguay, attended by President Lyndon B. Johnson and 19 others...
...meetings were called as a midterm review of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, launched in the beach resort of Punta del Este two years ago. The purpose of the Montreal gathering, held under the auspices of the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: to establish guidelines for furthering free trade. Instead, last week's GATT meetings, involving delegates from 103 nations, were dominated by an inconclusive and bitter row between the U.S. and the European Community. The chief issue was an American demand that all nations agree to the total elimination of subsidies to farmers, which...