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...long-running affair are E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend of 30 years and former personal lawyer who became a highly paid Wedtech lobbyist; W. Franklyn Chinn, a former Wedtech director who handled investments profitably for Meese in a "blind partnership" trust; and Rusty Kent London, a professional gambler and past financial consultant to Wedtech. The indictments contend that Wallach received a check for $300,000 from Wedtech in 1984, claiming falsely that the payment was for past legal advice to the company. "In fact," contended Giuliani, "the money was for future services, including efforts to influence Edwin Meese...
Goldsmith's eye for the future fascinated Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote this week's Profile. Says he: "Goldsmith is an extraordinary gambler who knows when to hold them and when to fold them. He also has a lot of luck. All great generals and politicians have that kind of luck...
Into this slightly sleazy scene come Salvation Army Sergeant Sarah Brown (Sarah Beatty) determined to rescue the gamblers from their sinning ways, and Sky Masterson (Andrew Gardner), a gambler who bets as high as his name. As a result of a wager, this disparate pair finds itself flying to Cuba. Of course, they end up falling in love, and all sorts of plot tangles and twists follow. Despite his reputation, Sky turns out to be more a gentleman than a gambler, and he stakes his fortune to save Sarah's mission...
...past decade, Lisbon and Peking have agreed that Macao, the tiny Portuguese colony and gambler's Mecca at the mouth of the Pearl River, would eventually return to Chinese rule. A major hitch, however, has been the & inability of the two sides to fix a date for Portugal to relinquish its administration of the 6-sq.-mi. enclave...
...were upping the ante beyond what was realistic for the two delegations. Gorbachev intended to trap the President, but then he became involved himself in the dialogue and allowed the attraction of the grand compromise to divert him from his main ambitions . . . My impression is that Gorbachev is a gambler...