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...their country's tradition of rough-and-tumble politics, the election campaign was a strangely sedate affair. Candidates were not allowed to hurl accusations at each other or criticize the regime. Political wall posters and graffiti were banned, and party members could display their loyalties only with discreet lapel pins. Virtually all politicians who had held elected office prior to the 1980 coup, including former Prime Ministers Bülent Ecevit and Siileyman Demirel, were forbidden to run. More than 500 of the candidates for seats in parliament were stricken from the ballot without explanation...
...fiscal sanity that is near to the heart of Peter Ueberroth, 46, the Olympian Cash McCall. For, in a way, this San Fernando Valley businessman-sportsman is starting the Games all over again too. "They must be kept more purely athletic," as the baron said, "more dignified, more discreet and more in accordance with the classic artistic requirements. The Games must be more intimate and, above all, the Games must be less expensive...
From the time Rich went on his own, commodity-trading insiders were suspicious. For one thing, he broke an industry taboo by wantonly raiding his former employer for dozens of traders. For another, he put his headquarters in discreet Switzerland while actually operating mainly out of his New York City subsidiary. Says one trader: "In the business, we felt there was some hanky-panky under...
...brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most of Buñuel's later films. A vehement antifascist, he left Spain in 1938, later won a Cannes Festival Grand Prix for Viridiana (1961) and an Academy Award for his scathing The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). He said his films contained no deliberate symbolism but hedged, "Perhaps there are other meanings unknown by myself...
...thousands of Iranians gathered daily in the streets of Tehran to shout "Death to America!" and even after a gang of students took over the U.S. embassy, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, Hashemi was selling U.S. arms to Iran. Ordered by the Iranian military to be more discreet, Hashemi closed the shop last year. He now directs his U.S. and international arms operations from London...