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...flame Roddy Llewellyn. Hoping to get away unnoticed, the couple travel under the names Mr. and Mrs. A. Cambridge. But the press tumbles, and it turns out that the young lady, who is said to have dined with the prince and his mother Queen Elizabeth II, is an American-born, onetime soft-porn ingenue who had starred in a racy 1977 British quickie called Emily. Within hours, Fleet Street has culled naughty photos of Stark naked and splashed them across its front pages. The Queen by this time has to be in an absolute tizzy. From Australia, she reportedly orders...
...scandal has also brought a wave of unwelcome attention to the Vatican bank's American-born president, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus. So far no one has openly accused Marcinkus of any illegal acts. But he is one of three Vatican officials under investigation by Italian authorities, who have indicated that Marcinkus could ultimately be charged. Serious questions are also being raised about his judgment and competence, specifically about his willingness to let the Vatican bank and its good name be used by international wheeler-dealers. At least eleven other official inquiries into Banco Ambrosiano's affairs are under...
...Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's eleventh largest bank, and the apparent suicide in June of its president, Roberto Calvi, Italian authorities tried to serve notice on three of the top officials of the Vatican bank that they were under investigation for possible bank fraud. Among them was American-born Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, the president of the bank, which is officially known as the Institute per le Opere di Religione (I.O.R.), or Institute for Religious Works. Earlier, the Vatican's top banker had served as both a papal bodyguard and aide to Pope Paul VI. The other two bank...
...very center of the scandal is Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus, the American-born president of the Institute for Religious Works, the so-called Vatican Bank. Investigators now know that Marcinkus played a part, perhaps unwittingly, in a huge loan scheme that could bring down the Milan-based Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's eleventh largest bank...
DIVORCED. Freddie Laker, 59, British pioneer of low-cost, no-frills transatlantic flights, whose Laker Airways was grounded by bankruptcy earlier this year; by American-born Patricia Gates Laker, 43; after seven years of marriage, one son, Fred Jr.; on grounds of adultery; in London...