Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congregation, Mark Thatcher, 30, may have been distracted. The son of Britain's Prime Minister was visiting Chequers, the P.M.'s country estate, so that Dad and Mum could entertain his new American girlfriend, Karen Fortson, 24. She is the daughter of Ben Fortson, a Fort Worth oil magnate, and murmurings from both families suggest that a match may be entirely suitable. For the Fortsons, a Thatcher might be the next best catch to British royalty. And with Mark's proclivity for controversial business deals and driving fast sports cars, a Fortson heiress should be a stabilizing...
...There is only one Republican candidate," says one campaign yet who's not around for the ride this time the ex White House Communication Director, David R. Gergen. He says, "All the sharpshooters are in the same fort Reagan will derive tremendous benefit from this." The one major campaign post yet unfilled is that of media coordinator though Republican officials predict the job will likely to Peter Daly...
Tony Tomasello, killing some slow moments last week at the gas station he owns in Fort Lauderdale, came across a fascinating story in his local newspaper. It said that a brown-haired man stopped by police for running a red light in the affluent Florida city might just be a Jesse James-style bank robber whose mixture of bravado and courtesy had made him a folk hero in South Africa. The traffic violator had given his name as Peter Harris. Tomasello had sold a used orange Mustang to a Peter Harris less than two weeks earlier. When he looked...
...mill criminal would have fled Fort Lauderdale in a flash. Not Harris, who was in fact Andre Charles Stander, 36, a former top detective and police captain in South Africa. Son of a police major general, Stander had inexplicably taken to robbing banks. Found guilty of several heists in 1980, he and a fellow convict, Patrick McCall, 34, overpowered three prison guards last August, escaped, and later broke into another prison to free Allan Heyl, 31, a friend. The three quickly began knocking off banks, some 20 of them, as many as four in one day. As they hopped from...
Police learned of one of the gang's houses, raided it on Jan. 30, and killed McCall. Stander, who was not in the hideout, used phony identification and flew to Fort Lauderdale. South African police also seized a $200,000 yacht bought by the gang and scheduled to be delivered to Stander in the Florida city. Stander learned of the yacht's discovery from a newspaper story-the same one that betrayed him to Tomasello...