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...Kissinger Associates, his international consulting firm. It is widely regarded as the Tiffany of that arcane new business known as corporate risk analysis, a growth industry in today's turbulent world. His firm consists of only nine advisers and researchers, a far cry from the 12,000 under his command at the State Department. The senior members are longtime Kissinger colleagues -- and proteges -- who bring their own distinction: former Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and retired General Brent Scowcroft, who was Kissinger's deputy and then successor as National Security Adviser. But what sets this firm apart from others...
Israeli authorities presumably believed they had caught a big fish: George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Jabril of the P.F.L.P. general command, or perhaps even Sabry Khalil Bana, better known as Abu Nidal, chief of the self-styled Fatah Revolutionary Council and the suspected mastermind behind countless terrorist attacks. But when the Israelis ordered passengers and crew to disembark from the commandeered craft, they discovered only a group of Syrian and Lebanese officials aboard. In what appeared to be a notable failure of Israel's highly vaunted intelligence services, the big fish had managed...
Perhaps they are already. Preachers like Robertson command audiences that form, if not a true Moral Majority, at least several potent and readily mobilized minorities. Robertson's following provides much of CBN's $233 million annual income. In a year, viewers of The 700 Club log 4 million prayer calls to 4,500 volunteers manning telephone banks in 60 counseling centers. Such motivated constituencies can--and do--bestow blessings aplenty, in the form of money and votes, upon candidates who win their favor...
...somewhat commonplace to say that public education in America is in disarray. Teachers in school systems across the country are on a work-by-the-rules policy, refusing to put in any time beyond their contractual obligation. Public school teachers command neither the pay nor the status they deserve. And students routinely graduate from high school unable to read or write and no doubt bitter towards society in general...
...importing $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. The jewel in the crown is the "Commission" trial, sometimes called "The Case of Cases," which is set to begin next month. In what could be the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943, the dons of the five major Mafia families that dominate the East Coast are charged with operating a "ruling council" that controls a variety of illegal enterprises. The case, which Giuliani will try himself, uses the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations...