Word: karle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blumenthal left Zaïre in 1979. But he continued his investigations in Western Europe, obtaining from former Zaïrian Prime Minister Nguza Karl-I-Bond, now living in exile, the estimate that Mobutu's private fortune exceeds $4 billion. Most of it was said to be held in Swiss bank accounts, a point that may explain why the Swiss have been receiving fairly regular payments on loans owed them...
Powell: In a phrase made famous by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels: "No ruling class ever voluntarily gives up state power." I would be astonished if the ruling class in the USSR, especially under new leadership, volunteers...
...then Katherine Anne had disposed of two husbands and, she claimed, 37 lovers. Two more husbands and uncounted lovers were still to come. Wherever she traveled, she seemed to attract admirers from the streets and from the ivory towers. Every literary encounter was charged with sexual significance. Poet Karl Shapiro commemorated her brief meeting with a colleague: "And when Dylan Thomas was introduced/ To Katherine Anne Porter in a room full of people,/ He stopped and picked her up below the thighs/ And raised her to the ceiling like a drink,/ And held her straight in the slack-jawed smoke...
...Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, praised JFK's work as a supporter of civil rights and anti-poverty measures...
Political Valet: When Konstantin Chernenko, 71, won East Germany's highest honor in 1979 (the Order of Karl Marx), Party Chief Erich Honecker described him as Brezhnev's "closest comrade-in-arms." Others have had less kind things to say of the stocky, silver-haired bureaucrat, labeling him Brezhnev's "briefcase carrier." "page turner" and "political valet." No one else on the Politburo owed his position so completely to Brezhnev...