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...Vesco is out even yet is unclear. Kilmorey on Oct. 30 sold control of IOS to a group of Spanish and Latin American businessmen headed by Prince Gonzalo Borbón y Dampierre and including Rafael Díaz-Balart, a former brother-in-law of Cuba's Fidel Castro, but the group now is reportedly trying to back out of the deal. In any case, the group has ties to Vesco; one of its members is Alberto Alvarez, the head of the Costa Rican company that got $60 million from Fund of Funds...
...passengers were badly shaken, Southern Airways may be financially crippled by the ransom it paid, the FBI has been damned for a trigger-happy performance and the hijackers are said to be condemned to spend the rest of their lives in 4-by-5-by-5-ft. cells in Fidel Castro's Cuba. On top of all that, the painful problem of prevention still begs for solution...
...curious factor in Marcos' dream of a "new society" is its puritanical streak. Brigadier General Fidel Ramos, commandant of the Philippine constabulary, said recently that his men had closed 124 gambling casinos, 24 of which had been operating openly on plush Roxas Boulevard before martial law was declared. "I hope, gentlemen," Ramos declared, "that I have not unduly interfered with your social life." Marcos has also banned the bombas, pornographic films with titles like Climax of Love and Naked in the Dark. Strangely, the Manila censor also closed down Nicholas and Alexandra...
...Fidel Calling. While Fisher can point to no major triumphs resulting solely from his personal interventionism, he is nonetheless unbowed. His first concern is to teach his letter recipients, as well as his students and readers, to think clearly about problem solving. And thinking clearly, in his view, begins with thinking small. "All the prizes in academia and journalism are for making the biggest statement about any problem you can," he says. Fisher believes instead in "fractionating:" breaking the problem down into individual steps, then deciding at each stage what is wanted from the adversary and determining what...
...cold war antagonists, the argument seems to run, why then should Latin American states not show their independence by doing the same with Cuba? As a result, says one top State Department officer, "You can see the Latinos every day sawing away at the bars around Fidel...