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Last week, De Klerk announced that NelsonMandela, the leader of the African NationalCongress (ANC), would be released from his 27-yearimprisonment. In addition, he said that the ANCand 31 other Black political groups would belegalized. And he promised the legalization of 374apartheid dissidents, as well as a halt toexecutions...
...audience after just 15 months on the air. CNN and Headline News, his two all- news channels, grow in resourcefulness and credibility with each passing world crisis. Turner has launched a publishing company, and is shopping for a movie studio (though negotiations to purchase MGM/UA have come to a halt). Visitors to his Atlanta headquarters can even browse through the Turner Store, which sells everything from CNN T shirts to Wizard of Oz beach towels and Scarlett O'Hara chocolates...
...four months the Barco government has waged a campaign to shut down drug operations. Last week the government raised the reward for information leading to Escobar's capture to more than $500,000. Police read the kidnapings as a warning to Barco to halt the expropriations of kingpins' property and the extraditions of drug lords to the U.S. -- or pay the price...
...leaders know it is lonely at the top, but Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been feeling more isolated than most lately. His moves to block an Arab League plan to halt the carnage in Lebanon and his decision to test two long- range missiles have angered neighbors. Moreover, his efforts to rebuild Iraq's economy are foundering...
...point or another in Ceausescu's machine. The President, Ion Iliescu, 59, is a former Central Committee Secretary who was demoted in the early 1970s after complaining to Ceausescu about nepotism in the party. Vice President Dumitru Mazilu is also a lifelong communist whose career ground to a halt after he clashed with the dictator. ^ The same is true of General Nikolai Militaru, the Defense Minister. Should old bosses, even if disgraced under Ceausescu, run the country's affairs...