Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confession to Italian Judge Ilario Martella last year, Agca contended that during a seven-week stay in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia in 1980, he was offered $1.5 million to kill the Pope. The man Agca said made the proposition is Bekir Çelenk, a shadowy Turkish businessman whose dealings often brought him to Bulgaria. Çelenk last week again denied that he had ever met Agca, but he admitted that the two had stayed at the same Sofia hotel at the same time in July...
...delegate to the Democratic state convention later in the week, attend law school next fall and, perhaps, pursue a political career. But her future was abruptly derailed by her past at the airport parking lot. Two policemen arrested Foat for the brutal murder of an Argentine businessman in New Orleans 17 years ago. Said she wearily: "I thought we'd been all through that...
...class we took a straw poll on the subject of capital punishment, I voted in favor of it." Wilkerson dropped out of Mesa College in Colorado after one year, married, divorced and knocked about in a couple of ill-fated business schemes. He then went to work for Houston Businessman Don Fantich, who local police suspected was an operator in the penumbra of the underworld...
When the movie begins, George Sitkowski (Bruce Dern) is the mayor of Scranton, running for reelection. James Daily (Stacy Keach), a junior high school principal, manages his former teammate's campaign, largely financed by Phil Ramono (Paul Sorvino), an Italian businessman whose strip-mining company thrives on city leases. Tom Daily (Martin Sheen), James's younger brother, returns from a mysterious absence to join the others and Coach Delaney (Robert Mitchum). "It's amazing." Tom comments, "nothing's really changed here. Nothing. "Of course, Tom's comment overlooks the closing of his old high school; the dark desertion...
...rule out the possibility that his supporters might have been acting on their own. Nearly three years after taking office, Mugabe now faces his biggest challenge yet, one that threatens to force more whites to flee the country while shaking international confidence in Zimbabwe's future. Says a businessman in the capital city of Harare: "It's tough, tough, tough here...