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...country that prizes the secrecy of banking transactions, Luxembourg's ) Bank of Credit and Commerce International grew to become one of the world's largest financial institutions (assets: $21 billion). But in Tampa last week the bank lifted its veil of secrecy when two of its subsidiaries pleaded guilty in the first U.S. money-laundering case against a major international banking house. In a plea-bargaining deal, the two subsidiaries -- one based in Luxembourg and the other in the Cayman Islands -- agreed to surrender $14.7 million of alleged drug profits...
When we wrote about the 464 Americans who died of gunfire in a single week last May, we received more than 2,300 letters, the largest response to a TIME cover story last year. Many readers praised the story, while others, including members of the National Rifle Association of America, accused us of ignoring the rights of gun owners. Reflecting on their arguments, our editors decided to take an in-depth look at the N.R.A. itself. The result is this week's cover articles, which include a defense of gun ownership by J. Warren Cassidy, the N.R.A.'s executive vice...
...refused to sell their wares to Campeau units for fear of not being paid. At the same time, Campeau's 100,000 U.S. employees are worried about layoffs, and many top officers have begun to seek new jobs. Says Robert Nesbit, a managing partner at Korn/Ferry, the world's largest executive-search firm: "I shudder at what is happening. Never before have the proud people at Allied and Federated sought us out. Now we are talking to three or four top divisional and corporate people every...
...became a machinist's apprentice, using the baptismal certificate of a dead older brother to pass for 16. "You have to push yourself to the front of the line," Campeau later noted. He built his first house after World War II, and was one of Canada's largest real estate developers in the 1970s...
...Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1978 invited the invasion of Vietnamese troops, really attacked the capital, Phnom Penh? Had Prime Minister Hun Sen been forced to flee to Viet Nam? Was Battambang, the country's second largest city, truly "burning brightly," as Khmer Rouge radio claimed? Amid the welter of conflicting reports coming out of Cambodia last week, all that seemed clear was that the level of hostilities was growing. The Khmer Rouge, one of three resistance groups fighting the Hun Sen regime, did toss six grenades in downtown Phnom Penh -- though without frightening away...