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...more pleased with the company's progress than Chairman Roberto Goizueta, 54. Says he: "My job is not to be right. It is to produce results." The Cuban-born executive, trained as a chemist, has generated criticism aplenty since he took the helm in 1980. Some of that controversy began well before he tampered with Merchandise 7X, the secret Coke formula that has been kept under corporate lock and key ever since the soft drink's invention...
...Roberto Clemente...
...Manila, government auditors last week charged that Marcos diverted $6.25 million in interest on U.S. foreign aid money for his personal use. Initially, J. Roberto Abling, the former executive director of the Economic Support Fund, a subsidiary of the U.S. Agency for International Development, admitted that Marcos may have pumped $1.75 million of that amount into the last election. Other AID officials denied there were any irregularities, although they said Marcos did make an unsuccessful attempt in late 1985 to siphon off foreign assistance...
There are several entries on fashion's sublime kooks. Elsa Schiaparelli, a blithe and irreverent spirit, jazzed up the '30s with her whimsical lambchop hats and red-apple purses. Roberto Capucci still does what he has always insisted on doing, creating one outrageously intricate gown and never replicating it. Charles James, the most brilliant American designer ever, was shackled by paranoia and notorious business dealings. He died broke and nearly forgotten in 1978, but the influence of his fabulous ball gowns remains, whether they are executed in a Paris atelier or a Hollywood costume department...
...that, Arslanian pronounced Jorge Rafael Videla, 60, President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, and his navy commander, Admiral Emilio Massera, 60, guilty of homicide, illegal detention and other human rights violations. The two were stripped of their military rank and sentenced to life imprisonment. Three co-defendants, including Roberto Viola, 61, who succeeded Videla as President, were found guilty of lesser charges, deprived of military rank and given sentences ranging from 4 1/2 to 17 years. The remaining four officers--among them General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who as President from 1981 to 1982 initiated the ill-fated...