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Since 1979, fundamentalists have inexorably gained power in the biggest and richest U.S. Protestant denomination, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Last year the rightward tilt was affirmed when fundamentalist Morris Chapman of Texas was elected president over Georgia's Daniel Vestal, leader of the moderates. Fundamentalists (who prefer to be called conservatives) have since piled pressure on Baptist seminaries to teach the literal historical accuracy of the Bible. They have also sacked recalcitrant officials like Lloyd Elder, head of the Sunday School Board, the huge denominational publishing house based in Nashville...
...winner last week of an intensive five-year competition for | the richest prize in the history of military procurement: a contract for 650 jets costing nearly $100 million apiece. To be built by Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics, the YF-22 beat out the YF-23 Gray Ghost, a Northrop- McDonnell Douglas project, for the honor of succeeding the venerable F-15 Eagle, now more than 15 years old. The full cost of the new Advanced Tactical Fighter, stretched out over more than two decades, could exceed $95 billion in today's dollars -- $32 billion more than the contract...
Check any list of the world's richest people and you probably won't find any mention of Saddam Hussein. Now those lists will have to be revised. Iraq's dictator controls a personal fortune worth at least $10 billion, according to investigators who say he skimmed that colossal amount from his country's oil revenues and created an army of front companies to put it in banks and investments around the world. Such unprecedented thievery would dwarf the more than $200 million that authorities in the Philippines say former President Ferdinand Marcos looted from that nation's treasury. With...
...slaves are out of the question, but the capital and the fortune are looking more attainable than ever to Iraq's Kurdish minority. After struggling for most of this century for control of their homeland, which happens to sit atop some of Iraq's richest oil fields, the Kurds have wrested large portions of it from Saddam Hussein's disheveled forces. Though their gains are far from irreversible, this time the Kurds appear to have a chance of holding on and, in the end, winning at least a form of autonomy. Says a beaming Hoshyar Zebari, spokesman for the Kurdistan...
B.C.C.I. has been in financial trouble since its money-laundering conviction and has turned for help to one of its original sources of funds: the ruling ! family of Abu Dhabi and its head, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, reportedly one of the world's richest men. Last year Zayed and his son Prince Khalifa acquired 77% of the bank and pumped in at least $600 million against the huge shortfall revealed by the Price Waterhouse audit. It is far from clear that even this infusion will save the bank. Among other irregularities, the audit showed $400 million simply unaccounted...