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Ueberroth presided over the Games in a spirit that reflected much of a new American style. He and his team, including LAOOC Executive Vice President Harry Usher and Hollywood Producer David Wolper, worked with imagination and brutal self-interest. In negotiations, they relentlessly pleaded poverty. A lot of the people who worked as volunteers were left in the aftermath wondering why they did not share in the profits. Some got bonuses. Most did not. Ueberroth received a $475,000 bonus, which, considering his accomplishment, was well earned. He gave the money to charity...
Attacks like the strike against Rithysen have become an annual dry-season ritual in the six years since Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, then known as Cambodia, and installed the Heng Samrin regime in Phnom Penh. Even though the brutal former Khmer Rouge government of Pol Pot had been blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million of the country's 6 million people between 1975 and 1978, many Kampucheans fought back against the Vietnamese invasion as best they could. Some 500,000 civilians and several thousand guerrillas took refuge in camps close to the Thai border. Year after...
...there were tears of sorrow and frustration in the eyes of many in the crowd of 150 Government officials and family members. Vice President George Bush delivered a brief and angry eulogy for the two officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development killed two weeks ago in the brutal hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight bound for Karachi. "We shall know their murderers with the long memories of those who believe in patient but certain justice," said Bush. "Civilized nations can and must resist terrorism and demand that governments have the decency to bring terrorists to justice...
When Daphne is raped in mysterious circumstances, the brutal Merrick seizes on the opportunity to arrest and torture Kumar. While Kumar languishes in jail, the story follows Merrick to another posting, and to a potential odd coupling between another Englishwoman, Sarah Layton (Geraldrne James), and an Indian, Ahmed Kasim (Derrick Branche). Around them all and around every corner hovers Count Bro-nowsky (Eric Porter). In a world where British cliques and clans are mixed with Hindu castes and classes, Bronowsky-a Russian emigre, an aristocrat and a confirmed bachelor-does not fit on any score. But neither does Merrick...
...tried to stay out of the contest. Said a U.S. official: "We maintained a hands-off policy. But anyone who knows anything at all about Grenada knew that a moderate party was the best bet. What everybody wanted was a government that was neither leftist nor a brutal, corrupt, fruitcake regime that would pave the way for another radical takeover...