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Although it is not know whether Kissinger condones it, former Nazi S.S. Colonel Walter Rauff has, since the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende, been made chief advisor to Colonel Hector Sepulveda. Sepulveda heads an organization called DINA (Directorate of Anti-Communist Investigation) which was recently established as an all-powerful state security network by the Pinochet government...
After the overthrow of Allende by CIA-supported Chilean militarists, Rauff returned to Chile, and was welcomed with his appointment as chief advisor to the head of DINA...
...search of the woman worthy of his heroic self-sacrifice, Tarnopol throws aside such winners, such female Tarnopols, as Dina Dornbusch (Sarah Lawrence, "rich, pretty, smart, sexy, adoring") on the way to his perfect losing cause. Maureen Johnson is a twice-divorced ex-barmaid out of Elmira, N.Y., afflicted by artiness, more than a touch of paranoia and a very odd walk. Roth often seems as baffled as the reader as to why Tarnopol should marry this "cornball Clytemnestra" for whom he feels no affection or even lust. Does Maureen represent the muse of disorder, the Dionysian element every artist...
Died. Marjorie Merriweather Post, 86, multimillionaire cereal heiress; four days after her 23-year-old grandson, David Rumbough, son of Actress Dina Merrill, was lost in a boating accident (see THE NATION...
Jordan's King Hussein may have thought that he had endured his last embarrassment from his first wife, Princess Dina Abdel Hamid, when she doused him with a bowl of soup at a dinner before their divorce in 1957. Not so. The latest shock: Dina's decision to marry an Al-Fatah guerrilla. A week before the wedding, Hussein is reported to have surreptitiously sent the bridegroom, whose code name is "Salah," a present of some $25,000. There were rumors that the gift was intended to buy Salah either out of wedlock or out of the Palestine...