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...Israel alone. Although the confrontation was in Germany, the hostages were Jews and the West Germans bear such a psychological burden of guilt from the past that they felt that they had to defer to Israel. Jerusalem intervened early in the decision-making with telephone calls, cables-and the dispatch of two high Israeli intelligence officers who sat in with the West German government officials from about 2 p.m. until the end. Mrs. Meir later shared the burden with the West Germans, publicly thanking them for their decision "to take action for the liberation of the Israeli hostages...
...Baron von Sepper, a World War I Austrian flying ace and an enthusiastic fascist, Burton feels a lugubrious vocation to dispatch a series of wives-Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and several other international cupcakes. "They were all monsters," he explains. "They only looked human when they were dead." His eighth frau is an American, Joey Heatherton, who comes on like a refugee from a Tijuana specialty act. With good, home-grown American intuition, Joey discovers that the baron's problems are rooted in impotence and a rather baroque affection for his departed mother. The baron rewards this...
...TIME Correspondent Samuel Iker could not believe his eyes when he saw "his" dispatch on Sargent Shriver's recent visit to Houston, a copy of which was routinely relayed back to him from TIME'S New York headquarters. The first three paragraphs had been mysteriously amended to include such Shriver-serving phrases as "Shriver reminded his warm, attentive audience..." Retracing the path of the material, Iker recalled that he had originally entrusted it to a campaign aide for delivery to Western Union. When Iker protested to Shriver staffers, they checked into the matter and discovered that a middle...
...that carry minuscule inventories and must reorder constantly. The streets of many Japanese cities and towns are too narrow and crowded for the big delivery trucks employed by manufacturers and large wholesalers; only the smaller vehicles used by the sub-wholesalers can reach the little Japanese retail shops with dispatch...
...TIME'S 20 reporters was Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. His principal command post was an advantageously placed row of seats and desks near the podium. Beside him sat his deputy and deskman extraordinary, Dick Duncan, amid a nexus of wires, phones and beepers with which he could dispatch one of TIME'S four floor reporters to cover a disturbance in the Ohio delegation or a fracas outside the hall...