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Right now he is intent on conquering America. Although he has made brief commando raids into the U.S., never before has he attempted to become the star here that he is almost everywhere else. "No non-Anglo Saxon performer has been able to sell music in America," he says. "I want to make a bridge between Latin music and American music that others can cross afterward. In the music business the U.S. is tops. A No. 1 song here goes all over the world. I have taken a risk in coming here, and I have put my challenge in front...
Loose lips, eccentric behavior-characteristics long affixed to this town-have to be searched for now, rooted out. Oh, evangelists still holler on the radio stations: they do not say things so much as they "sayeth" them. And H. Ross Perot did plan a commando operation against a whole country, Iran, to get two of his employees back. "Mad" Eddie Chiles-an ideologue who, says a longtime listener, "lives in a permanent state of incoherent fury"-is still on the air, and people drive around sporting bumper stickers that say I'M MAD, TOO, EDDIE...
According to one hostage, the hijackers acted "like mental cases," demanding at different times a helicopter, millions of dollars, automatic weapons and flight plans for Europe and the Middle East. Following the plane to Curaçao was a team of commandos from Venezuela. During the 17 hours the plane sat on the runway, while passengers sweltered inside, a team of anti-hijack specialists from the U.S. arrived. In the dark hours of Tuesday morning, a commando crept under the plane and deflated one of its tires; the other three tires were then shot out, immobilizing the aircraft...
Last year the company's profits jumped 25%, to $58.7 million Perot, 54, a man of military demeanor, established at EDS a corporate culture based on formality, patriotism and performance. In 1979 he dispatched a former Viet Nam commando and a group of executives on a defiant rescue of two EDS officials being held captive in Tehran. The successful exploit was chronicled by Author Ken Follett in the bestselling On Wings of Eagles...
...spiritual leader of Israel's militant West Bank settlers, who was held for questioning as part of a government crackdown on anti-Arab terrorism. No charges were laid against Levinger, but 25 other Israelis, including at least two active officers, some reserve officers, and soldiers from Israeli commando units, are now under arrest. Among the incidents under investigation are the 1980 car bombing of two West Bank Arab mayors, a July 1983 attack on Hebron's Islamic College and a foiled plot last month to blow up six Arab buses...