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...home address of Spain's 17th reigning sovereign is no small matter. By avoiding the castle last occupied by his grandfather Alfonxo XIII in 1931, Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon is sending a signal of solidarity with his countrymen's longing for self rule...
...Victor J. Yannacone Jr., a Long Island lawyer who fought to ban the insecticide DDT in the '60s, filed a class action against the manufacturers of Agent Orange in 1979. (He later withdrew from the case in a dispute with other attorneys for the veterans.) During the next five years the case provoked waves of other suits, countersuits, motions and medical examinations, as well as conflicting claims about the harmful effects of dioxin on humans...
...final, by week's end it appeared that Ardito Barletta, an economist who had served as a vice president of the World Bank until last February, would score a narrow victory over Arias, a Harvard-educated physician who leads the conservative Alliance of Democratic Opposition. But the real victor would most likely be the 12,000-man National Defense Forces, Panama's only security force. Ostensibly the election was to be the first step toward removing the military from politics, under the provisions of the constitutional reforms approved by referendum in 1982. In fact, Ardito Barletta was hand...
...latest chapter in the synfuel saga began two weeks ago with the resignation of Victor Thompson, 59, who had been the SFC's $135,000-a-year president for just two months. Thompson's departure means that the SFC board does not have enough members to conduct business legally. Thompson had replaced Victor Schroeder, the organization's first president, who resigned from the post in August amid a flurry of allegations, among them that he had charged $25,000 in home interest payments to the corporation. Just days after Thompson accepted his new job, the Securities...
Shawmut is a member of Herzog's class: the pensive man driven to distraction or worse by the messy betrayals of life. What Kind of Day Did You Have? presents a mirror image of this condition. Victor Wulpy, 70, is "a world-class intellectual" who is trying to keep life at arm's length. He has "arranged his ideas in well-nigh final order: none of the weakness, none of the drift that made supposedly educated people contemptible...