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When a Honolulu grand jury indicted Three-Term Mayor Frank Fasi for bribery last March, Special Prosecutor Grant Cooper thought he had an airtight case. The flamboyant Fasi, 57, a former junk dealer given to gestures like throwing a birthday party for himself at Aloha Stadium and inviting 20,000 guests, was charged with entering into a "corrupt understanding" with Local Developer Hal Hansen. Granted immunity from prosecution, Hansen talked a lot. He alleged that Fasi was to have received $500,000 disguised as campaign contributions from Hansen in exchange for the contract to build a $50 million city-sponsored...
...Mongol invasion. At least 40 million Soviet citizens (15% of the population) had been laid low with fever, coughing, headaches, aching bones and a lingering lethargy. By all accounts?none of them officially confirmed, of course?the ultimate ranking victim was Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. When his 71st birthday rolled around last week, Brezhnev, who rarely passes up any opportunity to accept honors or congratulations, was nowhere to be seen. In fact, he had canceled all recent appointments. At his last public appearance, at the Kremlin funeral of a Soviet marshal, he was coughing frequently and made liberal...
INVENTORS have a way of getting bored with their creations, and would-be magazine mogul Jann Wenner has proven to be yet another restless mind too impatient to busy himself with perfecting what he gave birth to. As his personal plaything Rolling Stone magazine approached its tenth birthday, Wenner evidently decided that major changes were in order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan...
...gone the way of so many other children of the Sixties, but with a difference-Rolling Stone was now flaunting its hip capitalist style with relish. Yet this exercise in electronic self-promotion by a member of the print media might have been excuseable if the two-hour birthday show had at least amounted to a competent rock history documentary. Instead, the hapless viewer witnessed grating excesses of Felliniesque imagery accompanied by watered-down renditions of Beatle standards. The program featured such rock minor leagues as Ted Neeley (that's right, the Ted Neeley), Patti Labelle and Jeff Holland...
...issue. Greil Marcus's sensitive feature on Graham Parker and Dave Marsh's cutting review of a recent Rod Stewart concert prove that Rolling Stone remains an important publication that should be taken seriously, Jann Wenner's megalomania notwithstanding. But judging from the double-barrelled fiasco marking the tenth birthday of his magazine, Wenner would be well-advised to make the next celebration of a Rolling Stone landmark a more private affair...