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...brother of Syrian strongman Hafez Assad. Rifaat once ran a 20,000-man militia at home but was kicked out of the country in 1983 when Hafez Assad began to worry about his sibling's lust for power. Since then Rifaat has lived the lush life of a global businessman, managing millions of dollars' worth of investments in Europe and the Middle East. He visits the properties with an entourage of 20 that includes his two wives and several shapely female "secretaries," all traveling aboard two customized 727 airliners he owns. But he's not likely to visit old haunts...
...everyone is. Mark Spitz, 41, now a businessman in Beverly Hills, is the marvelous sprint swimmer who at the '72 Olympics in Munich won seven gold medals in world-record time. Spitz had a world-class mustache and was smashingly handsome. The only knock against him was that he projected the personality of a 22-year-old who had spent a lot of time in swimming pools...
Never mind trade issues: the U.S. and Japan can't even agree on what's funny. That culture gap was illustrated recently when a Japanese businessman on a United Airlines flight from Tokyo to San Francisco handed a flight attendant a trash-filled airsickness bag and claimed it was a bomb. His attempt at humor didn't go over very well with the crew, which placed the bag carefully in a protective box, dumped fuel and headed back to Japan. Last week the prankster paid United a relatively small damage settlement of $29,000. An airline lawyer explained that after...
Clifford and Altman are not the only U.S. connections to B.C.C.I. that the New York grand jury is looking into. Investigators suspect that wealthy Saudi businessman Ghaith Pharaon, who purchased the troubled National Bank of Georgia from President Carter's friend and onetime budget chief Bert Lance and later sold it to First American, has been a front man for Abedi. Banking regulators are probing another Pharaon holding -- Independence Bank in Encino, Calif. -- to see if Abedi or B.C.C.I. is the secret owner of that bank. And a federal grand jury in Miami is tracking Pharaon's and B.C.C.I...
...there is one U.S. city where people live to eat out, it is New Orleans. Businessman Tripp Friedler and chef Larkin Selman reopened the intimate Gautreau's there just as the economy fell like a souffle in a cold draft. Their formula: combine more expensive main dishes with less costly garnishes, and visa versa. An appetizer of crab cakes, for example, is accompanied by marinated black beans. Caviar is not out of the question, but it comes from a local fish called choupique (pronounced shoe-pick) and is said to be as good as any other American kind...