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...agreed. "The indictment pretty well knocks out the decision makers from Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas City," he said. Perhaps. But first the defendants must be convicted in court. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that the casino games themselves are crooked, except for an occasional phony jackpot as a skimming tactic, and there is unlikely to be any shortage of gamblers in Las Vegas...
...National Press Association retaliated with a statement describing Sharon's attacks on the press as "clear evidence of his desire for totalitarianism." Most observers believed that his outburst was part of an open campaign to return to the Likud bloc's inner circle. For now, the tactic seemed to have backfired...
...merits," the Administration's tactic is pitiful indeed. But given the history of American involvement in Central American elections, this latest episode is nothing short of a disgrace. For years, whoever happened to be sitting in the Oval Office rubber stamped the blatantly fixed elections of former Nicaraguan dictator Anastassio Somoza. A similar policy has prevailed for dealing with equally corrupt Guatemala since 1954, when a U.S.-instigated coup deposed the democratically elected, but leftist, Arbenz government. And the Reagan Administration points with pride to its role in conducting and monitoring the March 1982 elections in El Salvador certainly...
Some U.S. diplomats are convinced that Mitterrand's strategy is to give himself some negotiating flexibility by decrying the American "pressure" even as he sends in troops to check the Libyan advance. It is altogether possible that the tactic is working. Gaddafi last week gave Mitterrand the benefit of the doubt, saying that France "was drawn into that conflict in spite of itself." This, as well as his repeated assertions that Libya is not directly involved in the conflict, may be Gaddafi's way of preserving a little room to maneuver in future negotiations...
...time-honored way to start a successful bank is to identify it with a booming local industry, a tactic that has worked for the likes of both the giant Manufacturers Hanover Trust of New York City (deposits: $41 billion) and the little Farmers & Merchants National Bank in Rensselaer, Ind. (deposits: $50 million). Now two California banks that plan to open later this year are using the strategy: Silicon Valley Bank and High Tech National Bank...