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Volcker, who was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and took his master's degree in political economy at Harvard, is an avid deep-sea fisherman. Before his two children grew up and he moved with his wife to a co-op on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was a dedicated gardener at his New Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck...
...city through a busing crisis. But in his bid for Governor this year, Sloane was beaten by former Kentucky Fried Chicken King John Y. Brown, a man with no political experience who put $1 million of his own into the campaign, and stumped the state with his new wife, TV-famous Phyllis George...
...funds were then shuttled through a network of interlocking companies in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Through such maneuvering, Somoza acquired his mansion in Miami Beach, which is officially owned by a company based in the Virgin Islands, two posh condominiums in Coconut Grove for his estranged American-born wife Hope, and a luxurious apartment for his girlfriend Dinorah Sampson. Besides this choice real estate, Somoza's enterprises include six companies in Miami that imported a reported $30 million worth of beef last year, a 49% share of two Colombian coal-mining companies, and a controlling interest in Visi...
...were worried: a new government bill threatened to restrict their right to marry as many wives as they could afford. Though polygamy would remain legal, according to legislation that was debated in Nairobi's Parliament last week, a man would be required to get permission from his first wife before marrying a second one. In addition, the new bill would make wife beating a crime...
...Kenya's parliamentarians, the majority of whom are polygamists. Even so, many of them had serious reservations. Kimunai arap Soi, an M.P. representing one of the Kalenjin tribal areas, charged that the bill would make it impossible to teach wives "manners" by beating them. "Even slapping your wife would be out," he fumed. He was eloquently supported by another male member, Wafula Wabuge, who said that African women loved their men more when they were slapped, "for then the wives call you darling." Grace On-yango, one of four women in the 170-member assembly, ventured to point...