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SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Jose M. Ferrer III, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
...make his plan work, Collor, 40, will have to overcome a stubbornly resistant economy. Under former President Jose Sarney, Brazil tried to implement three anti-inflation programs in four years. All failed, mainly because as soon as the reforms were announced, consumers rushed to buy goods, creating a new surge in inflation. They were betting that the government could not control prices, and they were right. Thanks to Collor's freezing of assets, that shopping surge seems unlikely to happen this time. But labor leaders have vowed to strike if the President follows through on plans to sell or close...
...Jose Menendez was only 45 when he was killed in August; his wife Mary Louise was 44. He had been a hustling Cuban kid sent to the U.S. by his well-to-do parents when he was 16 to avoid indoctrination by the then new Castro regime. He rose rapidly in the rental-car business but made his real mark as a shrewd operator in the record-and-video distribution business. He founded his own video- and music-software distribution company, Live Entertainment Inc., and joined the board of directors of Carolco Pictures Inc., producer of the Rambo films...
...ruled out a gangland murder because of the sheer savagery of the attack. "Mob killings are 'clean'; this one wasn't," says an officer. Suspicions were further heightened when family members told police that a copy of what might have been a new will had been erased from Jose Menendez's home computer. "The focus became very clear over the past few months," said Chief of Police Marvin Iannone. There was some physical evidence, but "we were waiting for the glue binding it together...
...March 8 edition of The Crimson, Ruben Navarrette '89-'90 wrote an opinion piece titled "Telling Secrets at RAZA." In it, he addressed the "bizarre tragedy of former classmate Jose 'Joe' Razo." After some thought about his choice of a title, I was somewhat amused because the "secrets" he speaks of are hidden even to the very members of RAZA, Harvard's Mexican-American student organization...