NEWS
May 21, 1998 | SEBASTIAN ROTELLA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In a startling twist to a mystery that has obsessed Argentina, a fugitive tycoon suspected of ordering the slaying of a magazine photographer shot himself to death Wednesday as police closed in on him at a rural estate, authorities said. Alfredo Yabran, 54, who became a symbol of public suspicions of labyrinthine corruption, killed himself in the early afternoon at his estate in Entre Rios, the province where he was born, authorities said.