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...other side of Ulster's bloody equation, the outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the murders of a policeman, a militiaman and a businessman, which were carried out in the seven days since the signing of the accord. WEST GERMANY New Life in the Fast Lane...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art's gift shops. Calvin and Sharon Petersen of Mantua, Utah, bought build-it-yourself paper medieval towns (price: $6.95). Cathy Smith of Medford, Ore., bought a framed print of Nathaniel Currier's lithograph The Favorite Cat ($38). For his mother, Steven Prince, a Los Angeles businessman, selected a shawl imprinted with the tree of life ($25). Says Prince: "Museums sell items of quality. They bring art to the people...
Anyone who is 67 years old and has a personal fortune of more than $150 million has a right to relax. But then, John Johnson is not just anyone. "I run scared," says the wealthiest black businessman in America. "I came from the welfare rolls of Chicago." Still driven by the restless ambition that pulled him out of the ghetto, the chairman of Chicago-based Johnson Publishing, the largest U.S. black-owned company (1984 revenues: $139 million) works twelve-hour days and shows no signs of slacking off. Not content to preside over Ebony and Jet magazines, three radio stations...
Johnson is proof of what an astute businessman with a sense of black pride can accomplish. He dines occasionally at the White House and is an important contributor to such politicians as Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Illinois Governor James Thompson. Yet Johnson has never been completely comfortable with his success. Says he: "I live with the knowledge that it's possible to fail, and I try so hard that...
...Frangois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, the chubby youth raised popular hopes by promising economic reforms and easing some of his father's police-state tactics. But if the younger Duvalier at first proved less tyrannical than his father, he and his cronies did not hesitate to carry out what one businessman calls "the economic rape of Haiti." Among the worst offenders were the ministers fired last week, all of whom are said to have become wealthy during their government service. The four have been given their choice of diplomatic posts abroad. "It's early retirement for our supermillionaires," scoffed one businessman...