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At some personal cost in convenience, private citizens can change their life-styles to acquire greater security. The problem is considerably different for public figures, except in such well-disciplined police states as China or the Soviet Union, where leaders appear in public only on state occasions. No elected President...
In addition, the growth of the two superpowers' nuclear stockpiles makes it difficult for both the U.S. and the USSR to persuade other countries not to acquire their own, Lown says, adding that many nations now want their own bomb for status and "a national macho image." Six contries now...
Before starting Now!, Goldsmith, 48, a flamboyant food conglomerate millionaire and owner of the French newsweekly L'Express (circ. 585,000), tried to acquire the Observer and then bought 35% of the nonvoting stock in the Beaverbrook chain, whose flagship is the Daily Express (circ. 2.3 million). He made...
> How does a terrorist, freshly arrived in New York, a city where he has never worked before, alone and apparently unaided, acquire, within a day, a suitcase full of hand grenades and other deadly weapons? Most people, after all, have trouble finding Fifth Avenue their first day in town.
> How does this same man (Rutger Hauer) single out of the huge team of police pursuing him the one man, a fellow called Deke, who poses a deadly threat to him and then acquire a detailed dossier on him? Granted, Deke is played by sullen Sylvester Stallone, who tends to...