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...with what Western court observers called an unusually spirited defense by his Soviet lawyer, the defendant was found guilty and given a five-year suspended sentence. No less a court observer than Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev had predicted as much in a recent Moscow conversation with visiting California Oilman Armand Hammer...
...pursued Kauzov with phone calls, telex messages and couriers, and a visit to Moscow late last year. Meanwhile, Sergei filed for divorce from his cellist-wife Natasha, gave her custody of their nine-year-old daughter, and moved in with his mother. In June, Christina told U.S. Oil Magnate Armand Hammer, a longtime family friend, that she was off to Moscow again, this time to marry Kauzov...
According to Armand Hammer, the romance with Kauzov is more serious. "He had been helping her, advising her in many things, including her business," Hammer told TIME. "She feels she can trust him." Apparently so. Christina is said to be shopping for a cooperative apartment in Moscow, or a dacha near by, or both. "I'm very adaptable," she told one interviewer. Sergei, for his part, is said to be ready to take his wife's surname...
...author's good sense in becoming an American is readily apparent, especially to Americans. To him France is all but fossilized, and his highborn relatives there are wholly so, as the funniest parts of his account maliciously attest. (Ted Morgan's Uncle Armand once brought Marcel Proust to lunch. Afterward the due de Gramont, Armand's father, handed his guest book to the already famous author "and with the total disdain of the nobleman for the artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free...
...dealing to buy control of Financial General Bankshares Inc., the second largest bank holding company in Washington, D.C.; with assets of $2.2 billion, it controls the Union First National Bank of Washington and close to a dozen other banks in Maryland and Virginia. At a meeting set up by Armand Hammer, who is chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a Financial General board member, Lance told the bank's senior officers he was acting for the London-based Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which specializes in managing Arab funds. At week's end, a group of Financial General shareholders...