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...thought to have been hurt by over-confidence, a last-minute smear campaign and criticism instead of endorsement from the tenant sector, picked up 434 transfer votes last night. That puts him in ninth place with 1657 votes and Vellucci in 10th with...
While Amex's financial troubles could largely be chalked up as honest mistakes or twists of fate, one episode revealed a darker side of the corporate culture. In 1989 Amex managers admitted conducting a public smear campaign against Edmond Safra, a wealthy financier who had sold a bank to American Express in 1983. After he departed to start a competing bank, American Express officials began spreading the word that Safra was caught up with money launderers and drug traffickers...
With nowhere else to go, many African Americans rely on the local emergency room for all their medical needs. "The emergency room may treat a patient's pneumonia, but it won't do a Pap smear or screen a woman for breast cancer," says Dr. Marc Rivo, director of the division of medicine at the Department of Health and Human Services. Without early detection, more than half of black women with breast cancer admitted to Harlem Hospital are already incurable, in contrast to 8% of whites at a nearby facility...
Repercussions from the bank's collapse rippled far beyond Washington and London. In Peru the scandal reinvigorated charges that Garcia, President of the country from 1985 to 1990, had plundered the treasury by whisking funds through a B.C.C.I. branch in Panama. Garcia has called the allegations a political smear to keep him from running again in 1995. But Fernando Olivera, a member of the Peruvian Congress who has been Garcia's nemesis, demanded last week that prosecutors try the allegations in court. Among other things, investigators want to know how Garcia managed to acquire two fashionable Lima homes and take...
...more troubling are indications that some doctors and hospitals may be lax in protecting patients against exposure to the AIDS virus. Chicago's Illinois Masonic Medical Center has temporarily closed its adult clinic following two alarming incidents. In April a physician taking a Pap smear from a woman unwittingly used a swab that had previously been used to take a culture from an HIV-positive patient. The doctor thought the testing kit, which had been left out unlabeled on a table in the hallway, had been prepared for his use. Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman...