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Millionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, 57, took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Italy's 53rd post-World War II government. He named a Cabinet that included, as expected, members of the neo-Fascist National Alliance...
Awad's case began on Aug. 30, 1982, when he walked into the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland. He claimed he was a prosperous Baghdad-based businessman whom Rashid had coerced, by blackmailing Awad's business, to blow up Geneva's Noga Hilton. The story sounded farfetched, but when Swiss police went to the Noga Hilton, they found a bomb-rigged suitcase in Awad's room. As Awad volunteered more detail about Rashid's modus operandi, U.S. officials began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole...
...paced in his room in Washington's Hyatt Regency Hotel last Monday, Adnan Awad felt both exhilaration and melancholy. A long, unhappy chapter of his life was about to end, but it would not be sealed by the recognition Awad knew he had earned. For 10 years, the Palestinian businessman had helped U.S. officials to track down and prosecute Mohammed Rashid, a notorious Palestinian terrorist. In all that time, Awad felt, the U.S. had treated him shabbily. While he had been hailed by a Senate panel as "a hero for the American people," Washington had taken seven years to issue...
Most of the time, the dapper Ellison got along with blacks and whites. He was the precocious child of doting parents in Oklahoma City. "I'm raising this boy to be a poet," said Ellison's father, a small businessman who named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson and died when the child was three. Ralph's mother worked as a domestic and recruited blacks for the Socialist Party. There was no shortage of role models for Ralph; he attended a grammar school named for Frederick Douglass and won a scholarship to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While...
...thus been decided, the Russians explained, that it would be preferable if my companion would agree to deal through another nuclear-weapons complex, this one in the Chelyabinsk region. If the businessman agreed, the three Russians were still willing to act as liaisons for the transaction. "You've met the KGB man," the scientist assured us. "There will be no problems. But for Chelyabinsk, they think it would be best if you make a development loan to a private company that has been set up, instead of buying the materials directly." As collateral for the loan, the company associated with...