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Much of the credit (or blame) for this new Carter image belongs to Gerald Rafshoon, 44, the well-tailored, curly-haired, New York-born adman who has worked in every Carter campaign since 1966. After unofficially advising Carter since the Inauguration, he joined the White House's senior staff in July. As the $56,000-a-year Assistant to the President for Communications, Rafshoon has the job of improving the public's perception of his boss. He follows in the footsteps of such presidential image burnishers as Truman's Leonard Reinsch, Eisenhower's James Hagerty...
Soilih, in fact, was apparently still under the influence of hash one night last May when 30 white mercenaries tiptoed onto a beach near the capital city of Moroni. They were led by French-born Colonel Robert Denard, 50, a notorious soldier of fortune who has left his bloody footprints in countless African battles in the past 23 years. As foretold, Denard was accompanied by a German shepherd dog. Within a few hours, Denard and his gang had shot up Soilih's bodyguard, put the dictator under arrest and accepted the surrender of the Comoran army, a ragtag force...
...spending market is born: two-career couples...
Almost as offensive as the show's characterization of Evita is its use of Che Guevara (David Essex) as narrator. Though Argentine-born, Guevara had no prominent involvement in the history of his country during the Perón era and did not know Evita. Why Rice has included him is a mystery, since the writer seems to know little about him. In Evita, Che is a bland, almost apolitical character who, his guerrilla garb aside, might just as aptly be called the Stage Manager or, for that matter, Nick Carraway...
DIED. Victor Hasselblad, 72, Swedish inventor of the Hasselblad camera; of cancer; in Gothenburg, Sweden. Born into a family of devoted amateur photography addicts, Hasselblad dreamed of developing his own camera and got a chance to do so for the Swedish air force in World War II. Then in 1948 he introduced the world's first 2¼-in. by 2¼-in. single-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lenses and magazines. It quickly became a favorite of professional photographers, earning a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of its field, and later was adopted by NASA...