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There are several entries on fashion's sublime kooks. Elsa Schiaparelli, a blithe and irreverent spirit, jazzed up the '30s with her whimsical lambchop hats and red-apple purses. Roberto Capucci still does what he has always insisted on doing, creating one outrageously intricate gown and never replicating it. Charles James, the most brilliant American designer ever, was shackled by paranoia and notorious business dealings. He died broke and nearly forgotten in 1978, but the influence of his fabulous ball gowns remains, whether they are executed in a Paris atelier or a Hollywood costume department...
...first Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr promised that the bodies would quickly be returned to the U.S. As middleman he designated Ilarion Capucci, a Greek Melchite Catholic archbishop and longtime ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Then the Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, president of the National Supreme Court and a leading political rival of Banisadr's, stepped in and insisted that only the Revolutionary Council or the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini could release the bodies. Beheshti ordered them transferred to the Tehran morgue, which falls under his jurisdiction. The militants who were guarding the U.S. embassy announced that an undisclosed number...
Using Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada as an enthusiastic mouthpiece, the skyjackers warned that their hostages would be killed and the jet blown up unless 53 assorted "freedom fighters" were released from prisons. Israeli jails held 40 of them, including Melchite Catholic Archbishop Ilarion Capucci, who was convicted two years ago of gunrunning for Palestinian guerrillas, and Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the three Japanese Red Army members who massacred 27 bystanders in 1972 at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport. The 13 other extremists, claimed the skyjackers, were imprisoned in France, Switzerland, Kenya...
...Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine last week, four commandos and two Israeli soldiers were killed in firefights before the guerrillas were turned back. They had set out to capture Israeli hostages to be traded for prisoners in Israeli jails, including the Melchite Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Capucci (TIME, Sept. 2), who is to be tried for smuggling arms into Israel for the guerrillas...
...Arabs. The ease with which clerics can travel across national frontiers makes them especially valuable as operatives. They are often motivated by an intellectual commitment to the cause they serve-and sometimes, alas, by the enormous sums of money they can make. Israeli officials, for example, believe that Capucci received more than $10,000 each time he carried messages or weapons between Arab countries and Israel...