Word: evening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last seen on Aug. 2, walking on New York City's Fifth Avenue near his $500,000 apartment in the exclusive Pierre Hotel. Over the next ten weeks, his relatives and lawyers reported receiving letters-and even a photograph-that supposedly proved that he had been abducted by Italian leftist radicals. But police in the U.S. and Italy suspected that the missing man, Sicilian-born Financier Michele Sindona, 59, had arranged his own disappearance to avoid standing trial in New York on a 99-count indictment for bank fraud and in Milan on charges of swindling two banks...
...Phoenix was torched. Later, the family was told by an anonymous phone caller, "If your boys go out on the football field Friday night, they're liable to get blown up." Kevin's brother Robert, a Gilbert High School defensive back, has played under an alias. Even Attorney Robert King, who represents Kevin Rutledge, received threats on his life. Notes Hing: "I was under the impression that football was supposed...
...Even veteran U.S. diplomats had to concede that it was a "masterful" performance. Said one State Department official: "Hard ball is what the entire process is all about. Carrington has proved that he can play that very well indeed." Thanks largely to the tactical skills of Britain's urbane, aristocratic Foreign Secretary, the sixth week of the Lancaster House Conference in London on Zimbabwe Rhodesia ended with a long awaited breakthrough: Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo after a four-day exclusion from the talks accepted a British-drafted constitution. In return Lord Carrington promised Western...
...serious state of military confrontation continues. In the Middle East, in Africa, in the Red Sea area, in southern Asia and in Indochina, ever more perfidious means of aggression and expansion are being used, namely by sowing discord, meddling in the internal affairs of others, fomenting coups and even by using intermediaries to practice armed aggression and military occupation." Accompanying Hua, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua offered some lukewarm support for SALT II. Claiming that China is "not opposed to detente," Huang said: "We are not opposed to such discussions or agreements. They could possibly make sense...
...canceled or postponed billions of dollars worth of orders from Japanese, American and European companies. The retrenchment has proved particularly disturbing to France, which ranked as China's fourth largest trading partner in 1976. By last year it had slipped to eighth place and prospects for improvement diminished even more with the cancellation this year of contracts for two nuclear reactors worth $2 billion. The ebbing commercial ties reflect not only France's inability to compete successfully with such industrial rivals as West Germany and Japan, but perhaps also Peking's displeasure with French reluctance to supply...