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...route from Caracas to Curaçao with 87 passengers and crew aboard, was hijacked by self-proclaimed Haitian Rebel Hilertaut Dominique and his Dominican accomplice Felix Segundo Castillo. Armed with gasoline and pistols, the two forced the pilot to fly the plane first to Trinidad, then to Aruba, and finally to Cura...
...Yuppie prefers Aruba, Fiji or some presumably undiscovered inn, "only to find the dining room packed with M.B.A.s ordering cassis sherbet for dessert." Favored movies include Annie Hall (in fact, anything by Woody Allen), Casablanca (because of the ceiling fans), An Unmarried Woman (excellent footage of SoHo lofts) and Chariots of Fire (crucial emphasis on athletics, competitiveness and expensive clothing...
...stockpiles of oil that they bought in anticipation of an OPEC increase, and will begin scrambling to buy more. Exxon has stated that it intends to market more low-priced Saudi oil in the West and will refine much of it in its huge complex on the island of Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela, which until now has processed local crude almost exclusively. Whether the Saudis and Emirates can and will increase output enough to satisfy demand cannot be judged now. But Round 1 clearly has gone to Yamani...
...Alinsky's Diamond he quits his familiar landscape and sets out on a literary crusade nearly as unfortunate as the one he describes in this novel. In the beginning, Francis X. Murphy, from Aruba, Ohio, is rotting away in a French château. He has married a baron's daughter and ruined her family - indeed the whole village of Vardille-sur-Lac - by being caught doctoring the local wine. As penance, Murphy resolves to drink himself to death by swallowing all 12,000 unsalable bottles...
...dock at Curaçao for a run ashore. Suddenly everyone we see seems to be smoking, and we plunge into the shops-or the clear sea-to escape. The weakest-willed flee back to the ship. This is to be the pattern for the next several days. Aruba proves particularly dangerous: the excitement of its busy casinos traps winners and losers alike into forgetting their vows...