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...Kissinger and Attorney General Edward Levi, former president of the University of Chicago. Both are Jewish, which might or might not still be a barrier to the presidency. Kissinger, despite his current troubles with Congress, remains one of the most admired men in the nation; but like Jones of GE, he is disqualified (unless we amend the Constitution) by his foreign birth...
...Compagnie des Machines Bull, whose shares were once so alluring that it was sometimes called the "Brigitte Bardot of French industry." De Gaulle rejected the offer and instructed then Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to find a "solution française." But the assignment proved impossible, and GE finally gained the equivalent of a 50% stake for $43 million...
Infuriated, De Gaulle ordered the creation of a competitor, and three small computer firms were eventually welded into the Compagnie Internationale pour I'lnformatique, known as CII. It never really gave Americans much competition. GE increased its holding in Machines Bull to 66% and then sold its interest to Honeywell in 1970. Under the leadership of a former IBM engineer, Jean-Pierre Brulé. Honeywell Bull earned a $25.3 million profit in 1974 on sales of $534 million and enjoyed a solid 18%-to-20% share of the French market. By contrast, even with massive infusions of government capital...
...fedayeen pitched grenades in the direction of a nearby hall where a wedding reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story building in a carefully coordinated predawn raid, seven of the fedayeen had died, along with eight hostages and three Israeli soldiers. Eleven other persons were wounded...
...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...