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...Robbery Ruckus Fallout from Ireland's largest cash heist ever has officials and security personnel fending off allegations of bumbling. On Jan. 24, two jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink...
...impact on the country, which is the second largest exporter of oil to the U.S., has been nothing short of catastrophic. To accommodate the bad-debt burden it has assumed, the Caldera government sped up the money-printing presses; this in turn has driven the annual inflation rate above 70%, the highest in South America. Price controls and currency restrictions, imposed to check inflation and save foreign reserves, have virtually paralyzed business. Public services have been curtailed, and unemployment has climbed. Constitutional provisions protecting civil liberties and property rights have been in suspension since last July, ostensibly to aid investigators...
...Stephanopoulos. It couldn't have got much worse. In the weeks after the mid-term elections, the Clinton White House had been in mourning, with top officials from the President on down trying out theories of "what happened" on one another. The soul-searching has ended, and no one sped the change more than Ickes. Last week, backed by Mrs. Clinton, he worked out the arrangement by which Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Don Fowler, a longtime party operative from South Carolina, will take over as co-chairmen of the party this week. Dodd will be the outside...
...Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep. As Beth had hoped, 'the tide went out easily,' and in the dark hour before the dawn, on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh...
Suitably satisfied, Cedras and his family finally sped through the night to the airport and boarded a U.S.-chartered Boeing 757 at 2 a.m. for the flight to their new home in Panama. They were accompanied by his chief of staff, Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, who had once declared that he would rather commit suicide than face a life in exile. A second plane delivered 23 close relatives and friends to asylum in Miami. By the following morning, the Cedras family was safely ensconced in a second-rate Panama City hotel...