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...mercenaries in the mid-1960s, appeared to be gearing up for action. From Johannesburg, he sent an "alert notice" to members of the Wild Geese Club, composed of Congo veterans. Hoare said he was offering his services to Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko, the principal backer of the F.N.L.A...
...coffee plantation and interests in newspapers and radio-TV stations. He is known to have sunk more than $2 million into a holding company called San Cristóbal S.A., a chief interest of Former President José ("Pepe") Figueres, a popular figure who is Vesco's leading backer in Costa Rica...
...Harris' Senate term was drawing to a close in 1971, it was apparent that Oklahomans were not happy with his leftward drift; he seemed headed for probable defeat. So rather than run for the Senate again, he astonished his constituents by declaring for the presidency. One stalwart financial backer, New York Investment Banker Herbert Allen, kept his campaign alive for six weeks. When it seemed hopeless, Harris withdrew...
...opportunistic Mather team recovered two fumbles, line-backer Eric Turner intercepted two passes and Joel Arnason a third in a decisive victory over a Quincy team which never put together a scoring threat. Mather scored on the first play after a Quincy fumble on a 22-yard sweep around right end, gaining a one-touchdown lead it held through the first half...
...fighting against "environmental extremists," backing social legislation but opposing radical solutions. On questions of defense and foreign policy he is unyieldingly conservative: deeply suspicious of the Soviet Union, stridently in favor of new weapons like the B-l bomber and the Trident submarine. He was a bitter-end backer of the Viet Nam War, believing that the fall of the South would lead to Communist domination of all Southeast Asia, and that eventually "Europe would very probably fall." He has been a fervent supporter of Israel since the country was founded...