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Working with Lawrence Schiller, the investigator and literary operator, Mailer spent six months in Minsk and Moscow interviewing friends and co-workers who knew the American defector in 1959 and the early '60s, when he worked unhappily in a Soviet radio plant and courted and married Marina Prusakova. Mailer and Schiller also interviewed some of the KGB agents who had the stupefying work of following Oswald around, and they read the KGB transcripts from the electronic bugs installed in the Oswalds' Minsk apartment-the intimacies and banalities of quarreling newlyweds. ("Wife: [yells] ... I'm not going to cook. L.H.O...
...Chiapas a Zapatista calling herself Major Ana Maria read to Mexican reporters a communique, supposedly from Marcos, that said the Zapatistas were willing to negotiate, ``but it is necessary that the government takes out its troops first.'' Government officials, relying on information from a defector known as Subcomandante Daniel, who is being held in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, insist that the movement is made up of a mere 130 ``professionals'' and 500 militiamen and is being torn by dissension over Marcos' allegedly authoritarian ways. If encircled and forced to hide in the jungle long enough, military planners...
...were bitter on all sides, with Sinclair charging that "the company is in the grip of people who do not understand the business." A number of important clients agreed. By week's end four major companies had pulled out or announced they were reviewing their accounts. The most important defector may be British Airways, whose $125 million annual advertising spending earned Saatchi & Saatchi $9 million in profits last year. Other companies reconsidering their advertising deals include the candymaker Mars and the Mirror media group. In announcing that he too was thinking of closing his account, Stanley Kalms, head...
...surprising number of defectors claim to have been Communist Party members in good standing who were fed up with the decline of living standards and the complete isolation of North Korea. Chung Kee Hea, 52, said he held a senior party job but still could barely feed his family. Last December he walked across the frozen Yalu, planning to get a job in China and then bribe guards to let his five children and wife join him. When he realized it was difficult to make a living on the run in China, he moved on to South Korea. The danger...
...Argentine judge has issued international arrest warrants for four former Iranian diplomats in Argentina, saying they "may have played a part" in the July 18 bombing that killed 95 people at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. An Iranian defector apparently fingered the four, whose whereabouts were unknown today. In an angry riposte, the Iranian government said it "categorically rejects these baseless and discourteous allegations." Argentina is homing in on the diplomats instead of cutting all ties with Iran, a move Buenos Aires feared would bring reprisals...