Word: desmond
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Enter the villain, Basil Yanko, a Yankee basilisk whose mysterious firm, Creative Systems, runs Harlequin's computer operations. He makes two announcements to Paul Desmond, Harlequin's loyal aide: 1) he is prepared to buy out Harlequin, for a suspiciously high figure, and 2) computer print-outs show that Harlequin himself has embezzled $15 million from his own company. It is clear, of course, that Yanko and his minions (this is the sort of novel in which the villain has minions) have framed Harlequin. But can this be proved to the international banking community? And what about Yanko...
Harlequin's man Desmond abruptly finds himself plotting with and against a variety of thugs, terrorists, secret Israeli agents and FBI blue-suits for control of a large chunk of the globe's financial power. Terror seems to have become an ordinary, accepted tool of commerce and diplomacy. Or should that be reversed: Have diplomacy and commerce become tools of political terror...
...freedom, the story falls basically because the hero has no real cognizance of his political situation. However, the music never disappoints: The sound track includes songs by the film's star, Jimmy Cliff, a splendid singer whose brand of reggae is strongly influenced by British rock, and by Desmond Dekker, whose reggae is much closer to the hypnotic "rock steady" rhythms of Jamaica in the early sixties. This film easily warrants a second viewing and hearing. Through Tuesday, April...
Powder Keg. As a result of the price runup, played-out mines are coming back to life. A young Johannesburg businessman named Desmond Fisher has bought a mine that has not been active for 13 years, and intends to bring it back into production by year's end at a cost of $1 million. At one Transvaal mine closed for a decade, 25 kilograms of gold worth about $145,000 at present prices have been produced in the past two months solely by reworking old tailings. The Grootvlei mine, which appeared to be near the end of its productive...
Colgate did not give up, however and tied the game with goals by Dan Desmond at 18:00 of the second and Mirabelli who made it six all at 3:54 of the third...