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...nearly a year, Fiat Chairman Gianni Agnelli has been trying to rid Europe's largest private automaker of an unwanted partner: the government of Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. In 1976 Libya purchased a 15% share of the then troubled company for $320 million and won two seats on Fiat's 15-member board. After Fiat executed a successful turnaround to become Europe's best- selling automaker, the Tripoli government refused to part with its shares. Last week Libya, presumably strapped for cash by low oil prices, handed over its shares for a handsome $3 billion. Two of the buyers, West...
...Navy ROTC cadet enrolled at Harvard offered an alternative explanation: that the military wants to get rid of homosexuals in its ranks. And while top Pentagon officials may not have designed the new screening policy as an overt purge of homosexuals, we can not help but think that the unfounded homophobia associated with AIDS affected their deliberations...
...contras be replaced by U.S. troops, and the indecisive border skirmishing by a full-scale U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. As it is, Washington currently has only 750 troops on Honduran soil in a constantly fluctuating rotation that sometimes involves as many as 5,800. "The only way to get rid of the Sandinistas," says Conchita Canales, a Nicaraguan exile now working as a cook in the Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that island of Grenada." For the moment, though, it seems that the tensions and motions...
...troubles, after all, have given him an opportunity to ride to the rescue once more and prove himself the indispensable man. The recent events, according to some, have invigorated him. "He didn't like the way he was pushed aside," says an intimate. "It took him forever to get rid of Wyman, and now he's enjoying it." For an aging broadcast legend, it is a sweet last hurrah...
...there was some dispute over whether a second failure should result in firing. Presidential Counsel Peter Wallison objected that dismissal "would be punitive." Shot back Education Secretary William Bennett, a hawk in the drug war: "It's meant to be punitive." Noting that his own plan for getting rid of drugs in schools called for expulsion of second-time offenders, Bennett asked: "How can you be harder on kids than you are on tax-supported federal workers?" In the end, the proposal won unanimous approval...