Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against a dark background, the outline of the constellations lights up, the tiny stars winking against the blankness. Aquarius . . . Cancer . . . Gemini . . . Then there is Leo, Khashoggi's birth sign, and as the constellation brightens, a small image of the round-faced, mustachioed Saudi Arabian arms merchant and businessman flashes...
...PRICE (syndicated). A wealthy businessman's wife and stepdaughter are kidnaped by Irish terrorists in this taut and intricate thriller imported from Britain's Channel...
...battle in the sky. It was unbelievable." So said Jordanian Businessman Salim Dado after surviving a terrifying ordeal aboard an Iraqi jetliner on Christmas Day. According to officials in Saudi Arabia, where the plane subsequently crashed, 62 of the 107 passengers and crew members on the stricken craft were not so lucky: they died in the crash, and about 20 others were injured, in one of the worst hijacking disasters on record...
...Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis? to the Vatican and had no trouble getting Pope Pius XII to bless...
...York Businessman Roy Furmark, a consultant to Saudi Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, described a financial mystery in an interview with TIME. His story: Khashoggi lined up $25 million in bridge financing for U.S. sales of arms to Iran this year. Toronto Investors Donald Fraser and Ernest Miller, together with some Middle Eastern and European investors, routed the $25 million via Khashoggi into the Swiss account of Lake Resources, Inc. -- $10 million in February and $15 million in May. Why Lake Resources? Says Furmark: "Mr. Khashoggi said Mr. Nir of the Israeli government told him that Lake Resources was the account...