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Still, says Gooding, "there was a good circumstantial case, but nothing that absolutely nailed it." Starting on Aug. 14, Gooding says, he spent "virtually every waking hour" with Rowlands in an effort to come up with visual confirmation. Four days later, the Star reserved a room overlooking the balcony of the suite (No. 205) at Washington's Jefferson Hotel where she and Morris supposedly met, and Gooding plotted to take pictures. (A photographer would shoot stills while Gooding operated a video camera). Rowlands came up with the idea of bringing along her Yorkshire terrier, Bijou, to make sure she could...
...Star sleuths spent five more days waiting, as Morris' work delayed a planned assignation with Rowlands; finally they met on the night of Aug. 22. While Morris was on the phone, Rowlands went onto the balcony. Morris soon followed, and the rest is tabloid history. "I didn't want her to do anything out of the ordinary," says Gooding, in response to charges of entrapment. "I didn't ask her to ask him any questions, to pump him or anything. But the only way that people would believe this story was to have pictures...
...inherently unstable situation like that was ideal for Iranian and Iraqi mischief making. Iran, which is said to support the P.U.K. clandestinely, has been sending small units into the area for months under the pretext that they were subduing Iranian Kurds. On Aug. 17, the P.U.K., with military hardware allegedly supplied by Iran, began a serious assault on the K.D.P. Iranian forces joined the action by shelling K.D.P. positions from Iranian bases...
...example, on Aug. 16 one of Farrakhan's top aides, Minister Tony Muhammad, prophesied that within 30 days "the wrath of God will show itself in a major earthquake" because the Muslims had been evicted from their Western regional headquarters in Inglewood, California. This may be the first time since the Old Testament that anyone has called on the Lord to get involved in a real estate dispute--and set a deadline for his seismic intervention...
FREED. MAMORU KONNO, 57, president of Sanyo Video Components USA Corp., who was kidnapped on Aug. 10 in Mexico; after payment of a $2 million ransom; in Tijuana. The kidnappers remain at large...