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Feudal Utopia. Last week Dame Sibyl's grandson and heir, Michael Beaumont, 46, took leave from his job as a design engineer of guided missiles at the British Aircraft Corp. and prepared to move into the Seigneurie, the manor house of Sark. The 22nd Seigneur of Sark showed every sign of preserving his grandmother's feudal Utopia. "We want to keep the island quiet and peaceful," he asserted. "I believe the life of a seigneur to be infinitely more rewarding than making weapons...
...held stock and warrants worth more than $10 million. Though the stock has declined, Steinberg's company is in good shape. His bid to buy New York City's Chemical Bank was rebuffed in 1969, but Steinberg has branched into insurance, management consulting, and ship, barge and aircraft leasing, now runs his companies from Manhattan as chairman of the Reliance Group Inc. An active fund raiser for charities, he contributed $250,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign...
...toughen the U.S. bargaining position. The Soviets responded with a tough line of their own. Their negotiators reportedly declared that they would agree to numerical missile equality with the U.S. only if Washington 1) removed its nuclear-submarine bases from Scotland and Spain, 2) reduced the number of its aircraft carriers and prohibited all missile-carrying submarines from operating within range of the Soviet Union, and 3) stopped further research and development on new strategic bombers, air-launched missiles and sophisticated anti-ABM devices. U.S. negotiators ridiculed the Soviet demands as "outrageous." Little progress has been made on SALT...
...cargo planes for the resupply operation. On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the Department of Transportation was asked to help the Israelis find air charters. On that same day the Russian airlift to the Arabs began. On Thursday I instructed MAC to make plans for the possible use of large military aircraft such as the C-5A, because I anticipated that there might be a change in national policy. The Defense Department also urged immediate representation to the Portuguese asking permission to use their base on Lajes in the Azores...
...Friday, in a policy change, I was authorized to send military aircraft to Lajes, where the supplies our planes would carry could be transferred to Israeli aircraft flying into a civilian airfield on another island. Logistically, the transshipment would have been a nightmare. We still did not have the permission of Portugal. That night I was in bed when Dr. Kissinger called about midnight. He was highly distressed about the military developments in the Middle East. I got dressed and came to the Pentagon immediately. At 2:30 a.m. I decided that there was no other alternative than...