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...fullest range can be found at the designer's showcase store on London's Brompton Road. Originally an automobile garage, the shop has enough floor space to comfortably accommodate menswear, women's clothes and a Roman chariot race. "There could be more clothes in it," frets Danish-born Fashion Entrepreneur Peder Bertelsen, who backs Hamnett's retail enterprises on the designer's home turf. "Katharine's very exciting to work with," he adds. "She shouts at me and calls me names I can't find in the English dictionary...
...mortar shells that were originally bound from the port of Setubal to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The shipment in a West German flag carrier was illegal under a Bonn law that forbids the transport of armaments to "areas of tension." The delivery was contracted for by the Danish shipping firm of Finn J. Poulsen, which has an indirect connection with Iranscam. Last April the company sold a 163-ft. ship to shadowy private partners of Oliver North, who paid with funds from North's Geneva bank account. That ship was used to deliver arms to the Nicaraguan contras...
North was an obsessive master of detail, organizing everything from building a 6,520-ft. runway in Costa Rica to controlling the movements of a Danish- registered ship for the purpose of carrying weapons to the contras, and writing up talking points for negotiations with shady arms merchants. Whenever the Administration's enthusiasm seemed to be flagging on either the Iran or contra front, North whirled into action, proposing new policies for extricating the hostages and novel ways to raise more millions for the Nicaraguan rebels, sometimes employing the most outrageous of lies and schemes to keep the action going...
...convoluted tale began in April 1985, when two of North's shadowy private partners, Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, hired a 163-ft. Danish ship, the Veralil, to ferry weapons to the contras. The ship was loaded with Soviet AK-47 guns in Poland, then sent to Portugal to pick up ammunition. Documents said the ship was headed for Guatemala, but she docked in Honduras, where the contras collected the weapons...
...Erria is now in the Danish port of Korsor, her holds empty and hatches battened. A Danish firm engaged by Hakim to operate the ship has reportedly sued for $200,000. With his Swiss bank accounts frozen, Hakim is unlikely to settle soon. Meanwhile, the Erria is up for sale...