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This makes one appreciate Hugo Whittier, the narrator and quasi-hero of Kate Christensen's remarkable novel The Epicure's Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and writer--is rattling around his ancestral mansion in upstate New York, waiting to die. Hugo is a coldhearted bastard, or he likes to think he is, and he spews hilariously venomous bile on anyone who comes within range. He is also a snob, a genuine sophisticate who sits around musing...
...local producer called Shanghai Maple introduced a model that looks startlingly like the Citroen: same body, same interior, even the same way of tooting the horn from the turn-signal toggle. "It's exactly the same as the Citroen except half the price," boasts Liu Xiaojun, a Shanghai Maple dealer in Beijing. Citroen suspects that Shanghai Maple poached its suppliers and says it is considering legal action...
ROBERT SOCIA Car Dealer After 17 years, General Motors is returning to South Africa in full force, buying out its majority partner, Delta Motor. Socia, 49, a GM veteran, arrives to manage the newly named GM South Africa. GM sees the unit, which turned out only about 40,000 cars last year and claimed an 11% market share, as a springboard for growth in Africa. Socia, who previously ran worldwide purchasing, including a cost-saving partnership with Fiat, will fold the division back into GM. The company left the operation at the end of 1986 to protest apartheid, then reappeared...
...RELEASED. PETER BLEACH, 52, British arms dealer convicted of parachuting crates of weapons into India's West Bengal state in 1995; after a presidential pardon; in Calcutta. Bleach and an aircrew from Russia and Latvia were arrested in Bombay in 1995. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christian Nielsen, fled India, and the intended recipients of the weapons were never confirmed...
DIED. RON O'NEAL, 66, whose role as a violent, street-smart cocaine dealer who beats the system and leaves the drug world a wealthy man in the hit 1972 movie Superfly epitomized the blaxploitation genre; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles...