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About 12% of Bechtel's business is done in Arab nations-a matter that will surely be raised at Shultz's Senate confirmation hearings. "He will be more pro-Arab than Haig," predicts New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, a Democrat, who says of Shultz, "There are few more capable people in the country." Indeed, Shultz noted in a 1980 interview that "if I have any differences with Reagan, it's about Middle East policy." Even if Shultz does have a pro-Arab bias, which many of his colleagues deny, some question whether he will...
Mayor Dianne Feinstein. "I find it unbelievable." Mayor Lee Alexander of Syracuse charged that the document "draws a battle line between mayors of cities and the White House." New York Financial Expert Felix Rohatyn, who had helped save his city from bankruptcy, insisted that " 'drop dead' in draft form is no better than 'drop dead' in final form." Said Mayor Young of the draft: "It scares the hell out of me and should frighten every mayor...
...university, Bok argues, has entered into an anomalous kind of contract with the rest of society, an arrangement which has grown increasingly enigmatic as the scope and influence of the "multiversity" has spread. Society must seek to guarantee what Justice Felix Frankfurter described as "the 'four essential freedoms' of a university--to determine for itself on academic grounds who may teach, what may be taught, how it should be taught, and who may be admitted to study." In return for this autonomy, the university must abide by "the basic obligations required of every participant in a civilized society" the fulfillment...
...Prince Felix Yusupov believed he was saving Holy Russia too, when, after midnight on Dec. 17, 1916, he lured Rasputin to his palace and fed him cream cakes laced with cyanide. When the poison failed to take effect, the prince shot him. Left for dead on the floor, Rasputin opened one mad eye, then leaped up in an attempt to strangle his shocked assassin. Another conspirator had to fire more bullets. When the corpse was dragged out of the river near Petrovsky Bridge, water was found in the lungs. In the end, Rasputin may have drowned. Siberian peasants...
...Hotel and the Polo Lounge. Executives from Pillsbury and Control Data help keep the wood-paneled, chandeliered rooms of the Minneapolis Club filled to near capacity on weekday mornings. At New York City's Regency Hotel, Publisher Rupert Murdoch, Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel and Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn frequently occupy adjacent tables. Bob Tisch, chairman of Loews Hotels, which owns the Regency, and a habitual breakfaster, says, "The transactions are very gentlemanlike, but there is big money negotiated here...