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...professor of art history for the Salvadoran Ministry of Education. In 1970, Sancho formed "The Group," a political-military organization that brought together radical students and radical Christians. Like the other organizations, FARN bankrolled itself through kidnapings; Sancho is accused of responsibility for the 1978 kidnaping-assassination of Japanese Industrialist Fujio Matsumoto, among others. By one estimate, FARN had amassed $60 million through kidnapings...
...Jean Gandois, 51, who will retain his job as president of Rhone-Poulenc. An experienced industrialist and champion of free enterprise, Gandois had been singled out by France's powerful labor unions as a prime target for sacking because of his job-threatening efforts to phase out unproductive textile plants. That Mitterrand kept Gandois is a clear sign that the unions will not have a free hand in running what some pundits are starting to call "France...
DIVORCED. Christiaan Barnard, 59, South African surgeon who performed the world's first successful human heart transplant; and Barbara Barnard, 31, boutique owner and daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist; after twelve years of marriage, two sons; in Cape Town. She received custody of the children...
...growing number of Basque businessmen are taking the courageous step of refusing to pay ETA-imposed revolutionary "taxes"-extortion payments that have long been a source of millions of dollars in terrorist revenue. Typically, an industrialist would be "invited" by ETA to visit the adjoining Basque regions of France, where levies would be collected. In the past, businessmen who did not co operate were "kidnaped" or "kneecapped" (shot in the legs). Others fled the region. Recently, however, one industrialist refused to pay up and merely sent the extortion note to the moderate Basque Nationalist Party, which controls the regional parliament...
Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Ephraim Evron, managed to quiet the fears of most of the 34 Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to whom he talked in New York City at midweek, but many prominent American Jews remained troubled. California Industrialist Max Palevsky called the Beirut raid "appalling,", and added, "Begin's terrorism is as bad as that of the P.L.O. We just can't tolerate that kind of behavior from anybody." Said Meyer Berger, a Pittsburgh businessman and a member of the national board of the American Jewish Committee: "Never has the anti-Begin sentiment...