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...pirates responsible for one of the most audacious acts of political blackmail in modern times belong to a small band of Arab extremists called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Equipped only with guns and grenades, they managed to terrorize air travelers from the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, jeopardize a shaky truce in the Middle East, bargain for human life with some of the world's most powerful nations, and hold the entire international community at bay. In all, they detonated some $50 million worth of jet aircraft. Faced with the outrage of most...
...harsh dicta from his assembly days: "Money is the mother's milk of politics," and, speaking of lobbyists: "If you can't take their money, drink their booze, screw their women and look them in the eye and vote against them, you don't belong here." But he was never entirely the Mr. Hyde that his enemies like to imagine. By his driving force he overhauled the ramshackle, lobbyist-dominated state legislature to make it one of the nation's best. He raised members' salaries from $6,000 to $16,000 a year and provided...
...book's best promoter will be Charrière himself. He is already at work on a sequel to be called Papillon Comes Back-1945 to 1969. So much for Part II. What happens to him as a TV personality in the U.S. will properly belong to Part III, if he ever chooses to write it. Since he is evidently a man of charm, energy and perhaps genius, almost anything could happen. Maybe he will end up marrying Zsa Zsa Gabor or run for Governor of New York. On the track record, both the lady and the state might...
...husband teaches at University College, and she leads a busy suburban existence raising two children, learning Swahili and starting a drama group. "I've lived in England, where it is too cold," says Mrs. Young, "and in America, where it is too different. I know that I belong in Africa." The dilemma for most young women of the new Africa is that they have neither the means to live like Mrs. Young nor the wish to return to the tribal world they have left behind...
...Program. Suharto faces a tough battle against corruption, for Indonesia, like most Asian countries, finds graft and payoffs an almost necessary way of life. Loyalties belong first to family and friends, with the country running a poor second...