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...Mouse--At last someone has managed to succeed in making a decent mystery murder movie this summer--you even wonder "who did it?" until the very end. This film really has everything in it, and is well done to boot. A big time, capitalist-industrialist type is mysteriously murdered and director Claude Lelouch has cleverly thrown enough clinkers into the mystery, including some good leftist twists about the rich and the poor, to make it worth your money...
With reason. While the U.S. has not experienced anything like the murder of West German Business Leader Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall or the kidnaping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Edoard Jean Empain last winter, American executives have been frequent targets of violence. Indeed, according to a tally kept by the CIA, more than 40% of the 232 terrorist-connected kidnapings reported since 1970 (almost all in Latin America and Europe) have involved businessmen, one out of five of them Americans...
...industrialist gets burned at Rhodesian liberation politics...
...politics of black majority rule in Rhodesia. Not only does Lonrho have vast investments in the breakaway British colony but Rowland has friends-favored ones-both among the leaders involved in Smith's "internal settlement" and among the Patriotic Front leaders who are fighting them. The industrialist's immediate problem, however, lay in nearby Tanzania, where the socialist government of President Julius Nyerere announced plans to nationalize Lonrho's 18 local affiliates...
Longer than two football fields, taller than a 16-story building, the off-white structure floating up the Amazon looked like a jungle apparition. In fact, it was a huge paper factory that Daniel K. Ludwig, the secretive shipping, mining and real estate industrialist whose net worth is estimated to be as high as $3 billion, intends to use in exploiting 500,000 acres of timberland that he owns in the Brazilian wilderness...