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...pushed or quit, Rossellini and the company have parted ways-but she is not out of work. Last week she announced that she has a new job: vice president of the international marketing department, as well as model and pitchperson, for the European cosmetics firm Lancaster, which makes Joop! perfume. Asked if she will "make any money," she smiled her ice-cube-melting smile and said, "That's not a correct kind of question. But look, I am very rich, so don't you worry...
...cover, a black page with a white card glued to it carrying the sanguinolent message: "Anywhere women are dying, I am wide awake." Many found the approach too sensational: "Repulsive and absurd," was the response of Peter Heimer at the German Red Cross. But Hamburg fashion designer Wolfgang Joop, a financial backer of the project, asked, "What times are these when a single sentence printed in blood donated by volunteers shocks more than the incessant flood of pictures showing real bloodshed...
...moneymen, however, predict that the dollar will fall back to the depths reached in late 1979. International experts generally believe that the U.S. is finally confronting its inflation problems, and they are betting that this will mean a stronger dollar in the future. Says Joop van Kessel, an economist at the Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank: "There is a general feeling that things are working for the best in the U.S. That confidence has a lot to do with Reagan's cowboy image and strong personality." Even European government officials, who have been battling to bolster their currencies, give Reagan...
...reign was the public disgrace of her husband Prince Bernhard, whose role in the Lockheed bribery scandal was exposed in 1976. Like other crises, the Lockheed affair brought out the iron in Juliana's character. "Mammie," as the family calls her, fought like a lioness with then Premier Joop den Uyl, threatening to abdicate on the spot if her husband were subjected to the humiliation of a public trial. After an official investigation, Den Uyl agreed to drop the matter on the condition that Bernhard resign from all official duties...
There was little rejoicing by the Dutch government. Looking somber and tired, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl appeared on television to explain that "violence proved necessary to put an end to the hostage seizure" because weeks of negotiations with the hijackers had reached an impasse. Justice Minister Andreas van Agt, who with the prime Minister headed the crisis team dealing with the terrorists, made his own appeal for understanding of the difficult decision. "I beseech you to believe there was no other way," he said at a press conference. "We tried everything-every path of dialogue that there might...