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...believe it." The prosecutors seemed almost as surprised; they beamed and squeezed each other's hands in celebration. "By God, we've done it," whispered Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Stephen Famiglietti. But as Jury Foreman Barbara Connett twice pronounced the verdict "Guilty," Claus von Bülow, 55, did not even flinch. Except for a flush of bright crimson in his cheeks, he was completely impassive, as he had been throughout the nine-week trial. His urbane façade finally crumbled a few minutes later when he placed a call to his 14-year-old daughter...
...Claus von Bulow was born in 1927. The native Dane rose early in international social circles, joining the European high society during his school days in England. He rose in the oil business and at one point worked for American petroleum billionaire John Paul Getty. In the late 1960s, he married the ultra rich Martha "Sunny" Crawford von Auersperg, a Pittsburgh utility heiress, and they lived well, if not happily, in her Rhode Island mansion. But by 1979, he became distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections...
...front pages they have shared during the past three months they have most likely harbored the same fears and frustrations since their twin ordeals began. Both have been bandied about daily by the regional press, with the Labloid Boston Herald American, for example, alternating "LOCKE'S GREED" with "CLAUS WAS A LOUSE" as a daily cover decoration. (You can almost picture each rushing to a newsstand each morning, breathing a sigh of relief when it was the other's turn.) The two have suffered the trauma of seeing close relationships dissolve. A chief official and a young assistant...
Meanwhile, Claus von Bulow, the glamorous socialite and financier, the stoic foreigner who stole from the rich and who attempted to murder for love, has become somewhat of a cult hero. Crowds, swelling outside the Newport courthouse as the proceedings dragged on, waited each day for the defendant to appear, cheering him wildly as he smiled and waved before ducking into his car. "Claus" t-shirts and buttons, as well as "Innocent" tote-bags became the rage for the "Free Claus...
...reduce their dependence on the Soviet Union, seized the occasion to renew their plea for rapprochement with the West. Declared Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach: "We seek normal diplomatic relations with the U.S., not financial aid. Nobody here ever thought that normalization would come to us via Santa Claus." Though the Vietnamese chided the Americans for attempting to "politicize" the problem of the missing servicemen, they did agree to send a team of experts to the U.S. Joint Casualty Resolution Center in Hawaii, where bodies of American servicemen returned in the past were sent for identification...