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...officials and disclosure of Pretoria's role in backing the Biafran rebels during the Nigerian civil war. Two weeks ago, Rhoodie had a rendezvous in Paris with General Hendrik van den Bergh, 64, former head of South Africa's notorious Bureau of State Security (BOSS), and an industrialist named Josias van Zyl, 31, who offered Rhoodie a sales job in one of his companies. What the two men wanted in return was Rhoodie's promise not to say anything further, and not to make public the contents of tapes and documents that Rhoodie claims would embarrass...
DIED. Ernst Wolf Mommsen, 68, West German industrialist and former aide to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; of a heart attack; in Düsseldorf. A successful 25-year veteran of the Ruhr steel business, Mommsen in 1970 joined then Defense Minister Schmidt as his state secretary, with a salary of 1 DM (54?) a year, and two years later followed Schmidt to the Department of Economics and Finance. Mommsen was appointed in 1973 chairman of the board of Krupp, West Germany's faltering industrial colossus, and oversaw its two most profitable postwar years before retiring...
...organized crime, still wields vast political and financial clout in Arizona, although he is no longer chairman of the state's Republican Party. For all of the token reforms that have occurred in Arizona, the state is still run by the same pioneer ruling class of wealthy agribusinessmen and industrialist power-brokers who first came to Arizona a century ago to engage in the kind of business practices that were illegal in the less-permissive East. With or without Don Bolles, the lawless spirit of Arizona's Billy-the-Kid days still prevails...
...Wojtyla, the athletic, scholarly Archbishop of Cracow, became the first non-Italian Pope in 4% centuries; in tribute to his gentle predecessor, Albino Cardinal Luciani, who held the keys of St. Peter for little more than a month, he took the name John Paul II. In California a retired industrialist, Howard Jarvis, saw the state's voters approve his tax-slashing Proposition 13?a symbol of widespread middle-class anger at Big Government. A crazed cult prophet, Jim Jones, imposed a poisonous "white night" of murder and suicide on his followers that left 913 dead in the jungles of Guyana...
...work. A lot of them showed up in Cambridge for the dedication of the Kennedy School of Government--although Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill were conspicuous by their absence. There was a flash of April anger, as protesters denounced the naming of the school's library after an industrialist who had made his fortune in the South African gold trade. Mark Smith, a black senior, rose to address the crowd on the issue, and he spoke with power and elegance. The crowd applauded and left, to don their tuxes and gowns for the formal ball that night. The politicians...