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...aura of princely grandeur surrounding Mobutu is further bolstered by a life-style that includes palatial residences in each of Zaire's eight provinces and others in France, Belgium and Switzerland. There is not only a luxurious palace in Kinshasa but a 20-sq.-mi. "presidential domain" at N'sele, 40 miles away, which contains two more residences and a swimming pool billed as Africa's largest. To shuttle between his international chain of palaces, Mobutu uses the national airline, Air Zaire, as a personal transport service. His high-handed habit of commandeering planes at a whim...
...private life, if it can be called that, Slocum is a petty tyrant presiding over the standard domain: first a New York apartment, then a Connecticut house; a plumpish but svelte wife who drinks; a contentious 15-year-old daughter; a couple of younger sons, one braindamaged; and a constantly changing succession of maids. On the whole, he feels more at home in the office: "I don't think I've ever had a good tune on a vacation. (I'm not sure I've ever had a good time anywhere...
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark has another approach. He proposed last week that the Government exercise its power of eminent domain and immediately take possession of Nixon's tapes and papers. The procedure would be similar to the taking of property for construction of a road. Therefore Nixon would have to receive fair compensation if the papers were considered his personal property...
...Schnapper, a historian and editor of the Public Affairs Press in Washington, from publishing speeches Rickover had made. In effect, he was asserting a property right. The court of appeals ruled that any speeches related to Rickover's work as a Government official belonged to the public domain. Thus Schnapper won the right to print them...
...ironic note: the U.S. Government actually pays Pan Am (and other U.S. lines) less than half what it pays foreign carriers to fly the mail, a loss to Pan Am of around $35 million annually. Pan Am pioneered many worldwide routes that later were taken from its exclusive domain as its political power waned during the Johnson and Nixon years. Nixon, for example, awarded the Miami-London run to National Airlines after Pan Am tested it at great expense during the 1950s and 1960s...