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...officer in question was Alexandra U. Johnson, 32. An Arabist who had studied in Beirut and Tunis, she was assigned to the Jerusalem consulate two years ago as part of her six-year probationary training period. From interviews with Palestinians seeking visas, Johnson compiled a list of 29 incidents involving such tortures as "refrigeration, use of electricity, hanging by the hands or feet, extreme forms of sexual sadism, interrogation accompanied by starvation, enforced sleeplessness." Details were cabled to Washington last May and November by the consulate, which functions independently of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv...
...consumer does not understand what many of those chemical names mean. Surely most buyers would be hard put to know after the longest head-scratching what might be the purpose of compounds like triethanolamine and imidazolidinyl urea, which are found in many cosmetics. One of them, for example, is Alexandra de Markoff s Countess Isserlyn Creme; it is a high quality makeup, commonly known as a foundation, that costs $25 for a 2-oz. jar. There are a few makeup creams that cost more and many that cost less. But for many years Alexandra de Markoff, which is a division...
...blame." Michaelides tried to discredit the Bruce family in the letter and blamed them for his own legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have no other recourse but to use publicity by furnishing evidence to the newspapers that will destroy the false image of the family or by furnishing evidence and information to the IRS about...
Michaelides also maintained in the letter that he is innocent of bigamy. He said that he had obtained a Haitian divorce from his first wife, Mary, a U.S.-born schoolteacher, before marrying Alexandra. (In fact, Michaelides is now living again with Mary and their daughter, who was born after their divorce and named?in a mysterious allusion to both wives?Mary Alexandra...
Finally, Michaelides insisted in the letter that he embezzled nothing from the Bruces. Said he: "Everything that was found on my hands was either given to me by my wife or her brothers, or it was bought by me from her brothers after her death." (Alexandra's brother David denies this claim in an affidavit, filed in Jefferson County...