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Adham is just the latest of several Saudis with intimate ties to the royal family who have been dragged into the B.C.C.I. investigations. Also indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau was Ghaith Pharaon, the most flamboyant of the Saudis, who bought the National Bank of Georgia from Bert Lance, President Carter's onetime budget chief, and later sold it to First American. Last month Morgenthau moved against Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, who headed the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. Still another enormously rich Saudi remains under investigation: Abdul Raouf Khalil, a shareholder in both B.C.C.I. and First American...
...manner might suggest, Jordan went to work for Carter in the late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the blueprint for Carter's march from Georgian obscurity to the White House. Carter's campaign as an ) outsider running against Washington in 1976, notes his longtime friend Bert Lance, is reminiscent of Perot's pose as a new broom unsullied by politics...
Wright says he and McCormick drew most of the background for the game from The Ants, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson and Agassiz Professor Bert Holldobler...
...real estate peddler Donald Trump, last week proposed that Tyson buy his way out of jail by fighting again and donating his take to Indiana rape centers. This scenario will not unfold, even if Tyson could find an opponent (Holyfield, says his promoter, Dan Duva, will not fight Tyson). Bert Randolph Sugar, publisher of Boxing Illustrated, gives three reasons: "The state athletic commissions will lift his license. No hotel chain will sponsor it. And the event would have no advertising. You just can't see the announcer saying, 'And in this corner, the convicted rapist . . . Mike Tyson...
...case, neither nor Ernie nor Bert are scripted to die--or even fall ill--in the near future...