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...dupe of sophisticated traders and investment analysts whom he interviewed for his column. But in May the SEC charged in a civil suit that two stockbrokers who shared in the scheme, David Brant and Kenneth Felis, both then employed by Kidder Peabody, paid Winans $31,000 disguised as interior-decoration fees to his New York City roommate, David Carpenter. Last week's indictment charges that in the first half of 1983, before any arrangement with the brokers, Winans and Carpenter on their own speculated on stocks about to be mentioned in the column. They made a profit...
...prevailing speculation among U.S. policymakers is that Junta Coordinator Ortega, who is also the Sandinista candidate for President in the November elections, leads a pragmatic faction that is tempted to make concessions. According to that analysis, Ortega's hard-line opponents on the Directorate are led by Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martinez. Other experts are less certain of the Ortega-Borge division, but according to a U.S. analyst, "Ortega is the dominant personality, though he's not in charge of [Sandinista] policy yet. They've got to get out of that somehow...
...tiny religious parties in the hope of achieving a Knesset majority without Likud's help. Peres is especially lobbying the ultraorthodox Agudat Yisrael (two seats) and the National Religious Party (four seats), a mainstream Orthodox group that is holding out for the Ministries of Religious Affairs, Education and Interior. Yet the National Religious Party complicated Peres' task last week by announcing that it would join only a wider coalition that included Likud...
...nomination came as something of a disappointment to President Joao Figueiredo, 66, who has at times privately preferred Mario David Andreazza, 66, the low-key Interior Minister. Figueiredo has agreed to support his party's candidate, but some party members feel Maluf is an unpopular public figure who would not represent their views. A dissident group of about 60 Social Democrats, led by Brazilian Vice President Aureliano Chaves, decided to support Opposition Candidate Neves in exchange for a policymaking role in a government he might lead...
...majority party in each of Brazil's 23 states. Although the Social Democrats have a more than 30-seat majority in the college, Maluf faces an uphill fight. In addition to the Social Democratic dissidents who have pledged to support Neves, more than a dozen disenchanted supporters of Interior Minister Andreazza have indicated they might follow suit. Should that happen, Neves is almost certain to lead the political reawakening after what he has called Brazil's "eclipse of 20 years...