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Jarvis is a wealthy retired industrialist who does not see his antitax drive as a matter of self-interest. "Hell, I can pay whatever my property taxes are," he said. "I'll just write a check...
...most notorious of the arrested terrorists was Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 28, a onetime journalism student who is a suspect in the murders of both Dresdner Bank Chairman Jurgen Ponto last July and of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last October. Peter Boock, 26, and Sieglinde Hofmann, 33, are also suspects in the killings. Rolf Clemens Wagner, 33, was on the wanted list not only for participating in the Ponto and Schleyer atrocities, but also for the 1977 ambush murder of West German Prosecutor Siegfried Buback...
Denison University Cyrus Eaton, L.H.D., industrialist. Far-seeing financier and industrial planner; beloved guardian of higher education; world-renowned worker for trade, peace and understanding among nations...
These days Flick, a shy-looking industrialist with horn-rimmed spectacles, has a problem, and it may cause a lot more smashed crockery in those Munich beer cellars. He pocketed $1 billion when in 1976 he sold to a German bank 29% of the stock of Daimler-Benz, which makes Mercedes cars. Under West Germany's tax code, Flick has to spend all of that sum by Dec. 31 in ways that will "benefit the national economy"-or else pay 50% in capital gains and income taxes...
...sake of survival, states threatened by terrorists need to develop new, transnational means of dealing with a common enemy. Some steps in this direction have been taken. Virtually every police force in Western Europe cooperated with the West Germans in trying to track down the killers of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall. Shortly after the Moro kidnaping, the Interior Ministers of West Germany, Italy and Switzerland met secretly in Bern to discuss ways of increasing cooperation among their antiterrorist forces...