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Before I can do anything, though, Ramon the headwaiter butts in. "Excuse me, Mr. Commyovich," he says. "If you wish to remain on the premises, you must pay your...
...currently being investigated by the Justice Department and three federal agencies. In Tampa, Customs and FBI agents are probing allegations that Noriega was paid off to facilitate the smuggling of drugs into the U.S. In Miami, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking into similar accusations. In addition, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, a Cuban-American convicted in 1985 of drug-related charges, has testified in closed hearings to a congressional committee that Noriega pocketed millions of dollars in commissions on drug profits that passed through Panama's central bank...
Last week's court action centered on a legal appeal by three former aides to General Ramon Camps, the onetime police chief of Buenos Aires province. The court decision led to the immediate release of the three officers, along with scores of others who were being held on human rights charges. Camps, who was convicted last December, was not affected by the ruling, and will continue serving a 25-year sentence. Among the five former junta leaders already convicted are ex-President Jorge Rafael Videla and a onetime navy chief, Admiral Emilio Massera, both of whom are serving life terms...
...Ramon Felipe, chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), quickly dismissed Enrile's complaints. "There was no failure of elections," said Felipe, "but I think some losers would like to have a failure of elections." There were isolated incidents of vote buying and intimidation on both sides, and some of Aquino's relatives, either running on her slate or working for it, allegedly sought to use their family connections to influence the vote. Nonetheless, Comelec pronounced the balloting the cleanest and most orderly since the Philippines received its independence from the U.S. in 1946, an assessment generally shared by foreign...
...communities nationwide. The Mediplex Group, owned by Avon, has 19 facilities either completed or in the works, largely in California, Arizona and Pennsylvania. Marriott, which is best known for its hotels, has invested $150 million in three projects now under way in Haverford, Pa., Fort Belvoir, Va., and San Ramon, Calif. The company plans to build six more life-care communities by the early 1990s...