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Isabel de Rosnay, 21, is richer than Nicky. She is a billionette (looks like a billion), an heir to the fortune of her grandfather Antenor Patiño, the Bolivian tin king. She resembles a sleek, lacquered Andean Indian. Despite her wealth, Isabel is not idle. She does freelance public relations work, and helps her husband Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, 29, known as the Baroncito, promote backgammon in Europe. Recently, the Rosnays spent some time in the Middle East. Arnaud has devised an oil game, Monopoly style, called Petropolis ($790 for silver-plated derricks and gold-plated platforms...
...came one of the more dramatic reactions. The government of Bolivia, demanding to know the names of all officials who had received $460,000 in political "contributions" from Gulf in the 1960s, jailed Gulfs only known employee in Bolivia, Carlos Dorado, and demanded that Gulfs Dorsey appear in a Bolivian court to answer charges of "crimes against public order and the official economy." It also was conceivable that Bolivia could stop some $50 million in payments still owed to Gulf as a result of Bolivia's nationalization of the company's holdings six years...
...said that they would supply names at "the earliest possible moment." (Dorsey remarked that "people just don't write memos about things like that.") Arguing for Dorado's release Gulf contended that he had "no involvement whatsoever" in the payoffs. Last week, however, a Bolivian judge ruled that there were "indications "of guilt" against him. Dorado asserted that he was only a low-level employee responsible for transport, administration and public relations. The government's real target was Dorsey, who said: "They have no power to extradite me and I have no intention of going to Bolivia...
...nearly 25 years after not graduating from a Bolivian 'high-school' whose last trimester conflicted with early orientation at the North-American college of my choice--where 'comp' meant 'comprehensive final exams,'--I am again a degree candidate, accredited now by Fair Harvard herself...
...Uruguay insists that Castro still underwrites the Tupamaro guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...