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...impetus for the new gossip and speculation was the 240-page report by a three-man Dutch commission headed by European Court Judge Andreas Donner, charging Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands with "unacceptable" behavior in his dealings with Lockheed. Although the commission found no proof that Bernhard actually received the $1.1 million that Lockheed allegedly paid him, the Dutch parliament last week somberly debated whether the 65-year-old royal consort should be prosecuted. A tiny left-wing faction favored prosecution. But Protestant Anti-Revolutionary Party Leader Willem Aantjes summed up the views of many: "History shows the faithfulness...
Turning southwest, they cross the Continental Divide, push past gaudy Las Vegas and climb the Sierra Nevadas, pausing at Donner Pass. Here, explains Twain, whose lecturing is becoming a mild irritant, a wagon train, led by George and Jacob Donner in the winter of 1846-47, became trapped in a fierce snowstorm. Several members of the party died, whereupon the survivors proceeded to cannibalize the dead. Twain, having now discovered the credit-card culture, suggests that this event gave rise to the Donner's Club. Trollope is puzzled. "Is that like Carte Blanche?" Dickens, who has been dozing, starts...
...investigative commission, headed by Andreas Dormer, the Dutch chief justice of the European Court, ran into a roadblock in attempts to probe the prince's financial transactions. Swiss authorities, who fiercely resist disclosure of bank records, warned that Donner would face arrest for "economic espionage" if he dared set foot on Swiss soil in his investigative capacity. Later, under Dutch pressure, the Swiss Cabinet scheduled a special meeting to decide what assistance, if any, to give the Donner commission...
Pour the sack and pop the bubbly Slosh the Chivas and slosh it doubly. On Dancer, on Prancer, on Donner, on Blitzen...
Those beefy chorines in numbered jerseys are really Los Angeles Rams Cody Jones, Fred Dryer, Bob Klein, Merlin Olsen, Larry Brooks, Tom Mack, Bill Nelson and Jack Youngblood. The players are holding hands because they are rehearsing a high-kick production number with Dancer Cissie Wellman Donner, all for the sake of a Nov. 19 multiple sclerosis fund-raising benefit in L.A. Come show time, the boys will look even more terpsichorean, according to Costumer Barbara Zelin. Besides pink tutus, "the fellows will wear low-cut white tank tops with their numbers in pink sequins, white tights to show...