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...federal and state indictments bring new breadth and scope to the image of B.C.C.I. as a huge criminal enterprise that corrupted bank officers, government officials and journalists. Criminal counts against the bank, shut down by regulators last July, included specific allegations that B.C.C.I. bribed government and banking officials in 10 countries. A B.C.C.I. director, Sheik Kamal Adham, last week became the second prominent Saudi to be caught up in the scandal; last month Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, head of the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia, was indicted in New York. (See related story on page...
...subject of these conflicting visions is an edifice of daring scope and complexity, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Negotiators for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, at work virtually nonstop for the past 14 months, are in the final stages of preparing several hundred pages of regulation upon regulation, written in droning legalese. Yet once approved by the three governments, the trade pact will mark a dramatic turn in the history of the continent: at a stroke it will formalize a grand economic alliance, cement Mexico into a unity it has always occupied geographically, if not psychologically and culturally...
...overstepped his authority when he dissolved the party by decree and opened the way for a dictatorship in democratic disguise, where no political group will be safe from a presidential ban. They disclaim any responsibility for crimes committed by party leaders in the past and want to limit the scope of the hearings to the period after they renounced their monopoly on power in 1990. They also hope to shift the focus by dwelling on the party's achievements in defeating Nazi Germany and building the Soviet Union into a superpower...
...Death and God in L.A., a new book of essays edited by David Reid, admirably avoids settling for any of these oversimplified pictures as a real explanation of the city. The book's sheer scope guarantees that the somewhat chaotic reality of Los Angeles does not escape the reader: there is the predictable section dealing with the movies, but there is also a refreshing look at the city's architectural significance, several personal and theoretical discussions of its racial and cultural make-up, in-depth analyses of the economic prospects of the Downtown region and a piece on the city...
...quick perusal of the section names gives a hint of the broad scope offered here: Rock, Zydeco, New Orleans Rockin' Rhythm and Blues, Country, Cajun, Tex-Max, American Indian, Blues Women, Dixieland, Big Band, Swamp, Comedy and Boogie all get separate bins. This is surely one of the few places in the world where you can find an old vinyl recording of "Song of the Suffragettes" along with easy listening anthologies and used Thompson Twins...