Newsweek International articles from February 2001

Newsweek International archives from February 2001

Lots of Bull.(bulls from fights to be destroyed instead of tested for Bovine spongiform encephalopathy)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Bullfighting, Spain's fiesta nacional, is suffering on the horns of the ongoing BSE crisis. Each year some 40,000 bulls are fought and killed, and almost all are butchered ringside. They are then sold for the delectation of local consumers,...

Packing His Bags--Again.(Peter Mendelson)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Peter Mandelson's first rough landing came just two years ago: he was forced to resign as Britain's Trade secretary after failing to disclose a [pound]373,000 home loan given to him by another minister. The disgrace was fleeting. Within months...

Venturing Into Diana Country.(Prince Charles)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Ever since his marriage began to publicly fall apart in the early 1990s, Prince Charles has steered clear of what his courtiers used to call "Diana territory"--the United States. He briefly visited Los Angeles in 1994 and New York in 1997. But...

Can the Net Make Capitalists Nicer?(Pricewaterhouse Coopers's 2001 Global CEO Survey report on opinions on Internet use)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Since the denizens of Davos first learned to spell www, they have theorized that the Internet would help companies become better global citizens--mainly by increasing communication with customers and the public. But last week a session to...

Mourning at Yuppies cafe.(Israeli restaurateurs murdered by Palestinian group Hamas)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Motti Dayan and Etgar Zeituni considered it just another shopping trip. Last Tuesday the cousins and co-owners of a trendy Tel Aviv cafe called Yuppies ventured into the seething West Bank--defying a ban imposed by the Israeli military--in...

It's a Jungle Out There.(concerns that Europe may be adopting the American model of business)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... At times like these it is odd to speak of one "Western world," so wide are our differences. Mounting layoffs in the United States have aroused barely a whimper at home, yet inflamed the passions of protesters in France last week, where unions...

Getting Serious.(World Economic Forum in Switzerland protested;)(World Social Forum held in Brazil)
February 5, 2001... On Saturday, peaceful Switzerland bared its teeth. In the biggest security alert the Alpine nation has ever seen, riot police sealed off all approaches to Davos, the genteel ski resort that hosts the annual network-athon of CEOs, heads of state...

A Furor Over Abortion Aid.(George W. Bush bans U.S. aid to international organizations that promote abortions)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... President George W. Bush still calls himself "a uniter, not a divider." But he used his first full workday in office last week to tilt toward his supporters on the religious right. His order banning U.S. aid to international organizations that...

Like Father, Unlike Son.(Jose Bove, genetically modified crops protester profiled)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... For Jose Bove, the real action this week is taking place not on the snowy slopes of Davos but on the barren plains of southern Brazil, where he is attending an alternative summit in support of the world's small farmers. The French activist has...

On Patrol in Bosnia.(National Guard on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia)
February 5, 2001... Lt. Matt Stapleton is a long way from his weekend combat training. On an unseasonably warm January morning, the North Carolina National Guardsman--a volunteer part-time soldier back home in the States--is bouncing in a Humvee through Bratunac,...

'I Am Not a Criminal'.(Augusto Pinochet's medical condition and disputes over doctors' findings may mean he will stand trial for atrocities)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Augusto Pinochet appeared a harmless senior citizen when aides wheeled him out of Santiago's military hospital a few weeks ago. The white- haired former dictator grinned broadly before disappearing into an armored Mercedes. He had reason to be...

Gloria Takes the Reins.(Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo takes presidency of the Phillipines)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Less than a week after a mass uprising swept her into power, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stood once again before a sea of jubilant supporters. At a nighttime evangelical rally in downtown Manila, the new president of the Philippines closed her eyes...

China's Growing Holy War.(Falun Gong receive harsh treatment by Chinese authorities)
February 5, 2001... As night falls over the working-class district of Yau Ma Tei in Hong Kong, the bustling streets become silent and murky. Inside a second- floor tenement, two dozen Falun Gong practitioners sit closely together, chanting from their handbooks....

The Dangerous Pilgrimage.(a Falun Gong conference)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... You ask me why I'm crying," says Wang Meihong. After wiping her eyes, the slender young woman from mainland China--sitting in a Falun Gong conference in Hong Kong--tells her story. She is too frightened to publicly reveal her occupation,...

Nothing Between Earth and Sky.(Gujarat, India - earthquakes)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 5, 2001... On almost any other Friday, the students would have been sitting comfortably in school at 8:46 in the morning. But Jan. 26 was Republic Day in India, a national holiday commemorating the country's independence 51 years ago. So 400...

Provocateur Or Scapegoat?(Prabowo Subianto - former special forces commander in Indonesia)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)(Interview)
February 5, 2001... The mere mention of retired Lt. Gen. Prabowo Subianto's name always seems to spark controversy in Indonesia. That was the case on Jan. 6 when, during an interview with NEWSWEEK, President Abdurrahman Wahid said that Prabowo's name was in a...

The Toast of Davos Speaks Out.(Vicente Fox)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 5, 2001... Vicente Fox was the toast of Davos last week. Klaus Schwab, founder and president of the World Economic Forum, set the tone when he introduced his elite audience as "amigos de Fox." For all Fox's traditional trappings--the cowboy boots, the...

The Buzz On Bush In Davos.(George W. Bush and world)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Maybe Davos is just mesmerized by the man nobody knows. At last year's meeting of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine resort, the mystery man was Russia's Vladimir Putin. In conference sessions, over lunches and dinners, in the...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... "It was like sitting in a boat caught in a storm." Panka Darji, from Ahmedabad, India, on last week's devastating earthquake "Hopefully he is not as stupid as he seems, nor as mafia-like as his predecessors were." Cuban President Fidel...

The President and the Missing Millions.(Indonesia)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Judgment time has come for Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid. The committee investigating corruption allegations against him presents its report to Parliament this week. Wahid denies all the accusations, but committee sources say there is...

His First Fight.(Colin Powell)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Secretary of State Colin Powell is already locked in his first tussle with the White House. He is pushing to fill major U.S. ambassadorships with career diplomats, rather than the traditionally appointed big party contributors. Another issue in...

Flying Low.(Marine Corps V-22 Osprey )(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... The U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey aircraft program has weathered two fatal crashes in the last year. But will it survive its latest scandal? An anonymous tipster revealed recently that Osprey maintenance records had been doctored in an effort...

Talk About Beating Around the Bush.(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Much like the U.S. media, the international press has been dissecting President George W. Bush's down-home Texan style this past week. But the criticisms don't necessarily apply to Dubya's potential as a leader. Here's what the papers are...

Filling Dad's Big Shoes.(Joseph Kabila )(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Sworn in: last Friday Joseph Kabila was sworn in as president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Succeeding his father, who was assassinated just the week before, Kabila guaranteed "the independence, unity and cohesion of the Congolese...

His First Fight.(Hugo Chavez)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Military Briefs Venezuelan soldiers have been receiving ladies' underwear in the mail recently, with pamphlets urging rebellion against President Hugo Chavez. The anonymous sender says that if they don't have the cojones to rebel, they...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
February 5, 2001... Putin vs. Washington Our readers have given Russian President Vladimir Putin mixed reviews since he took office almost a year ago. One thing seems certain to everyone, however, and that's his tepid relationship with Washington. One wary...

Twilight of The Oligarchs.(Russia)
February 5, 2001... Sergei Dorenko was hardly surprised when he was fired two weeks ago. The blow had been coming ever since last September, when the executives of Russia's No. 1 television network, ORT, abruptly canceled the news show he anchored and began...

The Shadow of The Clinton Years.(hearings into pardon of Marc Rich)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 12, 2001... It was a belated bid to wipe the slate clean. Last week Bill and Hillary Clinton offered to pay for nearly half the $190,000 in gifts they took with them and agreed to pick up a large part of the rent for Bill's high-priced Manhattan office....

The Sequel.(United States funds Iraqi opposition)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... The Bush administration announced last week that it would fund opposition activities inside Iraq, signaling its first move against Saddam Hussein. But Saddam's opponents are looking for more than money- -they want better support from U.S....

Out of Africa.(Congo president Joseph Kabila meets with foreign politicians)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... Congo's new president, Joseph Kabila, brought his campaign for international legitimacy to Washington last week and won the first round. He held his own in meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell--and even with Rwandan President Paul...

Days of Hope.(politics in Myanmar)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 12, 2001... Why are Burma's military leaders easing up on their opposition, the National League for Democracy (NLD)? Since the new year, they have ceased press attacks, released 84 activists, and even held talks with NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi-- "the most...

Dot-Dictionary.
February 12, 2001... While the Web world fares poorly, its vocabulary seems to be getting richer. Some new dot-bomb phrases: Dot-compost: The assets of a dead dot-com that find new life. e-hole: Cocky twentysomething who thinks he can run his own I-biz....

Transition.(Alfred Sirven arrested)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... Arrested: Alfred Sirven, a former senior executive at French oil company Elf-Aquitaine, was arrested in Manila on Friday, ending a manhunt that began after he fled France in 1997. Sirven, 74, is the key figure in a corruption scandal involving...

A New Anna.(Review)
February 12, 2001... What do Tolstoy and "Titanic" have in common? They cross paths in a new comic-book version of "Anna Karenina" just published in Moscow. Here, Anna is a New Russian with a mobile phone, a cocaine habit and a penchant for fast cars and skimpy...

Tel-E-phones.(British Telecommunications PLC introduces Multi.phone kiosk)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... Hoping to revive the public telephone, British Telecom has launched Multi.phone, a kiosk offering Internet access. The five-month trial is an attempt to lure Britain's mobile-phone users--nearly half the population--back to the booths. With...

Tough-Love Diplomacy.(Sergei Tretyakov defects)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... Nostalgic cold-warriors sat up up and took notice last week when U.S. officials announced that a Russian diplomat by the name of Sergei Tretyakov had decided to abandon his job at the United Nations and remain on American soil. Though his new...

A Boat of One's Own.(Ellen MacArthur)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 12, 2001... A sudden gale hit in the middle of the Atlantic. Swirling winds rocked the 60-foot Kingfisher from side to side and spun it in circles. Lashed by rain, sailor Ellen MacArthur clung for three hours to the top of the mast. Eventually she scaled...

Voting for Sharon, Hoping for the Best.(Ariel Sharon)
February 12, 2001... Oded Doron has a queasy feeling about Ariel Sharon. The 44-year-old carpenter has voted for the Labor Party all his life, and regards the old Likud general as a bellicose egomaniac who could easily plunge Israel back into full-scale war. But...

Life in the Breakdown Lane.(Chrysler Group)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... The job isn't getting any easier for Dieter Zetsche. Ever since November, when Stuttgart-based DaimlerChrysler sent him to Detroit as the Chrysler Group's new CEO, the former Mercedes executive has had his hands full. The U.S. unit lost $1.7...

Flamenco for the 21st Century.(Review)
February 12, 2001... Jose Merce is Spain's top flamenco singer. for more than two decades he has built a reputation as the champion of traditional flamenco, the soulful music that combines Iberian folklore, Gypsy and Moorish influences. But his latest album,...

The Horrors of Germ Warfare.(Japan against China)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... For years, Japan denied the existence of Unit 731--a secret World War II Army unit. It allegedly dropped bombs in China to spread plague bacteria, and experimented with chemical and biological agents on prisoners in northern China. Recently 180...

Making Sense Of A Suicide.(Falun Dafa, analysis)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 12, 2001... It had been a long time since reporters had witnessed the awful spectacle of protesters dousing themselves with gasoline and then setting themselves on fire. Such desperate, grisly street theater takes us back to the carnage and confusion of...

International Perspectives.
February 12, 2001... "Twenty years for 270 murders is less than a month per victim. It's just not right."Peter Lowenstein, father of a young American killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, on the sentencing of a Libyan intelligence official. Another...

Too Eager to Toe the Line?(Gao Xingjian)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 12, 2001... The crowd in the ballroom was restive. Five hundred of Hong Kong's top writers, poets and newspaper columnists had been waiting for an hour to hear the first Chinese man in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. After living under the...

Why the Cod Are Vanishing.(fishing industry, analysis)
February 12, 2001... For the past decade the North Sea cod fishery has been shrinking--and everybody knew, or should have known, that a disaster was coming. Fishermen knew it was getting harder and harder to find cod; most years they haven't even been able to catch...

Lights Out.(California power shortage)
February 12, 2001... Pop quiz: Name this country. Rolling brownouts in one of its largest states leave high-school students in the dark, huddling in jackets, hats and gloves. Human screw-ups darken traffic lights, strand elevators, stop washers and dryers in...

The City of Curiosities.(Tate Modern, London, England)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... Bodacious Bollywood heroines pout at visitors to the Tate Modern's main hall. Fluorescent tubes dangle over a red fiberglass cow and painted shopfront shutters. Has some phantasmagoric Mumbai street scene crashed a mainstream London museum? The...

Wahid's Nimble Dodge and Weave.(Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid, public relations)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 12, 2001... Indonesia's president Abdurrahman Wahid was on the ropes last week. Last Thursday, thousands of anti-Wahid protesters rallied outside Parliament. Inside, lawmakers voted to accept a report accusing him of "playing a role" in a $4 million...

Hard Man in a Hot Seat.(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... Robert Zoellick was never one to mince words. After wild protests broke up the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, he accused President Clinton of pandering to the protesters. On trade, he wrote, Clinton has "straddled and stumbled, and...

Case of the Missing Contessa.
February 12, 2001... Real-life mysteries don't get much better than this. Italian Contessa Francesca Vacca Agusta disappeared from her pink clifftop villa on the Italian Riviera wearing only Gucci sunglasses, a silk robe and high- heeled slippers late Jan. 8. The...

The Hell of Addiction.
February 12, 2001... In the new U.S. thriller "Traffic," just opening on international screens, Michael Douglas plays Ohio judge Robert Wakefield, a Scotch- drinking conservative who is named the new U.S. drug czar. During an information-gathering trip to the...

Mail Call.
February 12, 2001... What Do Today's Women Want? Our Jan. 8 Special Report on Women of the New Century resonated with readers who were happy to see the subject covered. "Readers of the new millennium deserve more coverage of important social issues like this,"...

Terror Islands.(Muslim terrorists in Spice Islands)
February 12, 2001... Until recently Thomas Pury, 45, grew nutmeg and cloves on his four-acre farm on a remote island in the Moluccas, once called the Spice Islands. Like their parents before them, Thomas and his wife were Roman Catholics; so was virtually their...

Into the Breach.(war against drug trade)
February 12, 2001... First, Jose Argati heard the low rumble of the engines. Soon five light aircraft appeared low in the skies above his farm. Accompanied by Army helicopters, the crop dusters doused Argati's cornfields with herbicide. After four runs over his...

Sold, to the Gentleman in the Secret Service.(007 memorabilia auction)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Always wanted to be...Mr. Bond? This week, Christie's of London is holding an auction of 007 memorabilia. With the help of Rupert Allason, an author and expert on the British Secret Service, PERI looked at some of the gadgets, garments and...

Writing on the Wall.(antigovernment graffiti in North Korea)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
February 19, 2001... Photo: Exclusive: Video obtained by Newsweek shows antigovernment graffiti springing up in North Korea, where it's punishable by execution. This text, on the wall of an elementary school, reads: KIM JONG IL IS PUSHING OUR COUNTRY TOWARD...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
February 19, 2001... Crypto Warriors vs. Big Brother Our Jan. 15 story on Steven Levy's new book about cryptography elicited strong opinions. "The crypto breakthrough has fundamentally altered the relationship between government and governed," declared one...

Fear on The Hoof.(spread of mad cow disease)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 19, 2001... The danger's true extent is anybody's guess, but the concern is spreading around the world. Last week the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that cattle in more than 100 countries may have been exposed to mad-cow...

The New Misery Index.(Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... The 55-year-old grocer is not by nature a melancholy man. But years of economic struggle have darkened his mood. Abdullah has set up shop in Kandahar, a hometown he shares with Osama bin Laden, the suspected Saudi terrorist. The West's war...

Brazil's Junkyard Angel.(Rodrigo Baggio; Center for the Democratization of Computer Science)
February 19, 2001... Luciano da Silva Wanderley helped create Missionarios do Rock, an up- and-coming Brazilian band that recently won first prize in a Rio de Janeiro contest. He plays bass in the band and also happens to be its resident computer whiz. To show for...

The General and His Plan for Pakistan.(General Pervez Musharraf)
February 19, 2001... The standard props of politics--political parties, broadcast speeches and rallies--are banned by the military regime that rules Pakistan. So on the first day of her local government campaign, 28-year-old Sughra Hussain Imam resorts to the...

'Reform Is a Long Process'.(Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 19, 2001... Gen. Pervez Musharraf snaps shut a folder with a letter from Taliban leader Mullah Omar and sighs. "Everyone thinks I am the only person they can talk to," he says with a smile. He's right: in Pakistan, he and the cadre of generals who seized...

In the Realm of the Angels.(Ehsan ul-Haq)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Maj. Ehsan ul-Haq would be outraged if anyone called him a terrorist. For 10 days every month, the former Pakistan Army officer runs a garment factory in Lahore, a business profitable enough to keep him and his family in luxury. On the other 20...

Wiring Up Migrant Workers.(Computer Citizenship School for Foreign Workers, Japan)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... It began as a project to help impoverished Brazilian youth. In 1998 Inyaku Tomoya, a development worker in Tokyo, was vacationing in Brazil when he read an article about the Center for the Democratization of Computer Science, the organization...

Unsolved Mysteries.(murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Whether the Ukrainian president actually ordered the murder of a political nemesis will probably never be proved to anyone's satisfaction. But judging from the demonstrations that have jolted Kiev, the court of public opinion has already...

An AIDS Drug-Price War.(HIV virus drug treatment)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... People infected with the HIV virus can stay alive indefinitely, but only if they can afford drug treatments that cost $10,000 to $15,000 a year in the United States. The big pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs say these steep prices...

Love Them, Hate Them.(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... It was as if long-lost English cousins had come to town. Last week executives from the richest, most successful sports team in the United Kingdom arrived in Manhattan. They bore a striking resemblance to their swaggering Yankee hosts, who...

A Loud Message for Parliament.(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... East Java is a land of mysticism, Islam and violence. It is also the home of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, a Muslim cleric who enjoys near cultlike status. So it was no surprise when, after Parliament voted to censure Wahid for...

The Man Who Would Be King.(Renato Soru )
February 19, 2001... Sanluri, a peaceful farming town on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, has named no roads after its most famous son. But the presence of dot-com billionaire Renato Soru is everywhere. Walking past the old men on a bench in front of town...

Beer, Peanuts and Money on the Net.(free access to the Net )(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Some internet gurus would still have you believe that free access to the Net is a basic right of man. They are wrong. As economists like to say, there is no free lunch, not even in cyberspace. To understand why, consider the free lunch...

Surviving The Gujarat Quake.(Judy Frater )(Interview)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Ten years ago Pennsylvania-born Judy Frater settled in India's western state of Gujarat. After frequent visits to the Kutch desert region, the former curator at Washington, D.C.'s Textile Museum wanted to reinvigorate the state's dying...

We'll See How Short Sharon's Fuse Really Is.(Ariel Sharon)
February 19, 2001... For Ariel Sharon, it was a clear sign that his enemies would not be intimidated. Just two days after his landslide victory in the Israeli election, Palestinian bombers packed 30 pounds of explosives into the trunk of a stolen Ford Fiesta and...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... "Will he make peace? Let's see him first make a government." Israeli columnist Nahum Barnea, on the landslide election victory of hard-liner Ariel Sharon "Barak lost because the situation is impossible. We reached the stage where we could...

Abortion Battle.(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... After a brief lull, America's battle over abortion is set to heat up once again. This week the government will release details of international abortion restrictions recently put back in place by President George W. Bush. The policy cuts...

Can't Name That Tune?(computer software identifies notes of tunes in database)(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Got a ditty creepin' and crawlin' around inside your head and just can't place it? Your troubles will soon be over. A Norwegian company, Fast Search and Transfer, has developed a computer-software program that picks up the notes you hum,...

Singaporn.(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Perhaps Singapore isn't as prudish as its reputation suggests. PalmStories, a California-based service that provides porn stories and pictures for palmtop owners to download, says the little city-state of 4.1 million people makes up a third of...

In Search of Buried Bombs.(Brief Article)
February 19, 2001... Hiroshi Tomita made his name finding potholes. His Tokyo-based company, Geo Search, develops machinery that scans highways with ground- penetrating radar to spot sinkholes in the roadbeds beneath the surface. In 1994, however, Tomita realized...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
February 26, 2001... Justice for All Americans? Our story on John Ashcroft's nomination for attorney general elicited mixed reviews. Some readers applauded him and defended his views. "Ashcroft will stand up for his convictions," wrote one. But the majority...

You Say Tomato, I Say 'Ick'.(genetically modified foods)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Most corn in the United States now contains a gene, transplanted from a bacterium, that gives the corn the ability to repel insects. Although millions of Americans happily scarf it down each day, Europeans have been adamant in their dislike of...

The W and Tony Show.(George W. Bush and Tony Blair)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Last November, as the U.S. presidential election dragged on in Florida, Tony Blair ran into some visiting Americans in the corridors of 10 Downing Street. Who's going to win? the PM wanted to know. George W. Bush, the Americans agreed. There...

The Nairobi Connection : How U.N. agents bilk refugees they are supposed to help.(United Nations)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... He fled the civil war in Somalia in 1991. Ever since he has lived in a dusty camp in northern Kenya, enduring the indignity and poverty of life as a refugee--and dreaming of escape to America or Europe. Never had his hopes soared so high as...

A View From the Arab Side.(Arab -Israeli conflict)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)(Interview)
February 26, 2001... Three noted intellectuals on the perils and the possibilities ahead Violence is escalating in Israel and the territories. Last week Hizbullah launched a new rocket attack from southern Lebanon. In an unstable region made even more tense by...

Bush Family Ties : The Texas clan came to Mexico for oil--and have built a complex web of friends and partners.(George W. Bush)
February 26, 2001... In 1960, George Bush senior, then a Texas oilman, looked to Mexico to expand his fortune. It was not the easiest place for a foreigner in his line of work, since the state had a monopoly on the energy business. But Alfonso Adame, a Mexican oil...

Missing Mogul : The long rise and fast fall of a colorful chaebol chief.(Kim Woo Choong of Daewoo)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 26, 2001... It is the oddest of manhunts. At a union office of Daewoo Motors, just outside of Seoul, a big "wanted" poster hangs on a wall. It promises a $500 reward for information on the whereabouts of the company's former chairman, Kim Woo Choong. Next...