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Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari began a hunger strike, demanding that his name be cleared of rumors that he allowed the coverup of an assassination. Salinas said: "It's a question of personal honor." The ex-president's downward slide began Tuesday, when his brother Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas...
...over an 8- lb. silver ewer to a team of swaggering American sailors in 1851, the America's Cup (as it was called from then on) has overflowed with machismo. It was not just the Vanderbilts, the Liptons, the Ted Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower seemed at stake. Let Airbus lend its experts to the French, let the Australians weigh in with winged keels, let the Japanese marshal their mighty corporate...
Marie is devastated by the thought of moving from her home of 19 years. "I thought that this would be my house till the day I die," she says. "I wish people would believe us." The problem is, her neighbors are much more convincing. Raul Florez, a 22-year-old roofer from Mexico who lives two houses down from the Krafts, says John Sr. harassed him as soon as he moved in two years ago. Guyana native Sukhram Narine, who lives on the other side of the Ramoses, recalls suffering verbal attacks from the Krafts -- until the Ramoses arrived next...
CUBA: The Rise of Raul...
Washington's reaction is cautious. Castro's little brother is a committed communist, not a free marketeer or democrat. The U.S. has demanded that Cuba enact political as well as economic reforms before lifting the 32-year-old trade embargo. Raul's technical fixes have so far been accompanied by increased repression of political dissidents. According to the Pentagon, a post-Castro Cuba cannot be truly capitalistic and democratic if the military is ingrained in the economy. But as other communist governments have learned, economic reforms often create a market for democracy. Raul and his generals may yet discover...