Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acted alone. In the spring of 1982 Agca began changing his story. He reportedly told Martella that while staying in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia in 1980, he was offered 3 million deutsche marks (then worth $1.25 million) to kill the Pope by Bekir Celenk, a shadowy Turkish businessman with ties to his country's arms and drug smugglers. In Rome, Agca said, he met with three Bulgarians, including Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the head of the local office of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines, to plan the papal assassination. According to Agca, Antonov drove him to St. Peter...
Herzog, indeed, has been a prominent figure in Israel for more than three decades. A major general, author (The Arab-Israeli Wars), lawyer and businessman, he rose to prominence during two tours as director of military intelligence (1948-50 and 1959-62) and then as Israel's first military governor of the occupied West Bank. Israelis know him best for the informed military commentaries he provided during the 1967 Six-Day War. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1918, he immigrated to Palestine in 1935 but returned to England to study at Cambridge. In 1939 he enlisted...
...Afghan camp, for instance, Eve is stopped by the young prince who loves her. She levels her gun at him, but he stands firm and opens his shirt, exposing his chest as a target. All Eve can do is mutter "Men" and run off. Robert Morley as the deranged businessman Bentik also keeps the movie from taking itself too seriously, camping up his malice and insulting his manservant. And the 12-year-old in all of us giggles at serial stunts and big battles from which the heroes emerge safely. The viewer's grin on leaving is partly habit...
...release) is a transmitter tuned in to a device on the home telephone. The phone in turn is connected to a computer downtown. It will monitor whether the electronically shack led prisoner strays more than a few hundred yards from his telephone. "Every morning," says Michael Goss, the local businessman who developed the contraption, "we'll give the probation officer a list of all their comings and goings...
Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have wanted to acquire nuclear technology. Lebanese Businessman Anthony Tannoury seemed anxious to make a lot of quick bucks. Neither succeeded, but those were the elements of what seems to have been an unusually audacious swindle...