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...Colombia, where 157 judges were victims of drug-related murders between 1982 and 1988, it is a brave justice who stands up to the cartels. But last week, in a surprising move, the country's Supreme Court voted to uphold most of President Virgilio Barco Varga's emergency measures against narcotics traffickers. Most important, the court approved the President's power to extradite criminals...
Steve Martin is just wild and crazy over a new portrait of his girlfriend and Jerk co-star Bernadette Peters. The painting, on the cover of Peters' new album Gee Whiz, was done by Illustrator Alberto Varga, 84, who stirred the fantasies of two generations of young men with his soft drawings of semi-nude seductresses for, among others, Esquire and Playboy. Varga retired from painting beauties five years ago, but when Peters, 32, approached him, he just had to give her the brush. Said he: "Yes, you are a Varga Girl." Peters, who wore a camisole...
...slacks and a windbreaker, and got him as a regular contributor. For Esquire's first issue, Hemingway brought with him Ring Lardner Jr. and John Dos Passos. Gingrich believed that an editor edits best who edits least. Esquire's third element was sex-from the Petty and Varga pinups to harem cartoons- which got the magazine in early trouble with the postal authorities...
Within a week of the crime, Minister of the Interior Michel Poniatowski announced proudly at a press conference that "the catch of the [police] net is completed." With that, Police Commissioner Pierre Ottavioli disclosed that the mastermind of the crime was one Pierre de Varga, De Broglie's Hungarian-born partner in several questionable business enterprises. An accomplice, according to police, was another partner, Patrick Allenet de Ribemont. De Broglie had arranged a loan of $800,000 to both men to buy a Paris restaurant, La Ròtisserie de la Reine Pédauque, in which the prince...
Skeptical Press. Almost immediately, the police version of the murder was challenged by a skeptical press and public. Defense lawyers for De Varga and De Ribemont claimed there was evidence that under the terms of the loan, the two were required to pay it even in the event of De Broglie's death. In any event, the prince had recently provided them with a second loan, and they had every reason for wanting him alive as a continuing source of revenue...