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...agreement with Abu Dhabi's ruler, a principal backer of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has given new life to the global fraud investigation of the rogue bank. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan has agreed to allow B.C.C.I.'s No. 2 man, Swaleh Naqvi, to be extradited to the U.S. for trial on fraud charges, and to give prosecutors access to other former officers and to bank records. In turn, the U.S. has promised the sheik that he will not face criminal or civil charges in the U.S. and that a $1.5 billion lawsuit against him will...
...black page with a white card glued to it carrying the sanguinolent message: "Anywhere women are dying, I am wide awake." Many found the approach too sensational: "Repulsive and absurd," was the response of Peter Heimer at the German Red Cross. But Hamburg fashion designer Wolfgang Joop, a financial backer of the project, asked, "What times are these when a single sentence printed in blood donated by volunteers shocks more than the incessant flood of pictures showing real bloodshed...
...less cocky than Khrushchev. China has not carried out any open military operations of late, but it has been particularly insidious in supplying arms, especially the popular Silkworm land-to-sea missile, to nations whose wars are many miles away. The United States perceives China primarily as a cautious backer of North Korea and sometimes Vietnam, not as a direct threat...
...remain hostile, since they can no longer be accused of betraying the Palestinians. Moderate Arab states such as Egypt and Morocco may still be targets for subversion and terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists, crying louder than ever that their governments are selling out to the Zionist enemy and its prime backer, the U.S. But those governments will be able to reply convincingly that the fundamentalists are being more Palestinian than Arafat; any deal good enough for the P.L.O. should be good enough for the rest. Fundamentalist Iran and outlaw Iraq doubtless will do everything they can to destroy the budding peace...
...essential ambiguity of Roger's post-election career was summed up recently by the statements of his backer and would-be backers. "He has to have talent. He can't just be the President's brother," said Atlantic Records head Ahmet Ertegun. "He can't just have talent," said Esquire editor David Hirshey. "He also has to be the President's brother." The man who signed him for Atlantic Records is Danny Goldberg, who is better known in Hollywood as a Democratic activist -- he organized the music industry's resistance to Tipper Gore's system of rating records -- than...