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...gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can." His connection to women is like kissing dry ice: "You think I'm a man and you're a woman," he says to a female culprit. "That's wrong. I'm a manhunter and you're something that has been running in front of me." He later shoots the lady in the leg to prevent her escape...
Sometimes the chief is the culprit. Chairman Terence Fox of Iroquois Brands, the Greenwich, Conn.-based maker of Champale malt liquor, was arrested in November after being discovered in a hotel room with $8,000 worth of cocaine. Last year Miller Brewing filed a $19 million civil suit against Robert Landau Associates, a New York City sports-promotion firm that had gone into bankruptcy proceedings in 1984. The brewer, a former client of Landau Associates, charged that President Robert Landau spent $2 million of Miller's promotional money on cocaine, racehorses and other personal expenses. Landau has denied the allegations...
...group was "probably" responsible for the killing. Both Syrian-backed, anti-Arafat groups accused al Masri of being an Israeli collaborator, and Abu Nidal also called the assassination "a warning" to Arafat and Hussein. Some Israeli sources, however, did not rule out Arafat's own Fatah organization as the culprit. Had the mainstream P.L.O. wanted to hit back at Hussein, Mayor al Masri would have been a logical target. Not only had his appointment received Jordan's tacit approval, but his family is part of the Jordanian Establishment. His elder brother Hikmat is deputy speaker of the Jordanian upper house...
Johnson & Johnson Chairman James Burke is not one to back away from trouble. Appearing last week on the Donahue television program to answer questions about the Tylenol poisoning earlier this month, Burke reacted swiftly when one caller denounced the culprit as a terrorist. In a gesture that was rare for a buttoned-down businessman, he clenched his fist and pumped it in the air, as if to say, "Right on. I agree...
...method, the motive and the culprit behind the latest poisoning all remain a mystery. The FDA has examined almost 500,000 Tylenol capsules from across the U.S. for evidence of cyanide, but has turned up nothing since Feb. 13, when investigators found cyanide in a second bottle of capsules, taken from a store just a few blocks from where the fatal package was sold in Bronxville...