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...President's other mortgage obligations are less Zeckendorfian. The two houses he bought on Bay Lane in Key Biscayne formed a $252,800 package. The house at 516 Bay Lane has a mortgage of $100,000, payable in 25 years at 7½% interest. The second house, at 500 Bay Lane, has two mortgages totaling almost $80,000, each for ten years at 6%. The presidential compound formed by the two houses is flanked by Nixon's friends. The ubiquitous Rebozo owns a house adjacent to the President's property. The house next to Rebozo...
...course, all the interest he pays on his holdings is deductible from his personal income taxes. His only real estate problem seems to be that, whenever the Nixons move into a neighborhood, they drive property values up. In the ten months that Nixon has owned the two houses in Key Biscayne, they have both reassessed upward by $52,000-a taxing experience, as every homeowner knows...
...fact is that the North Vietnamese were reluctant either to suggest or to respond to new initiatives while Ho lay dying. As Historian Lacouture pointed out last week, the key men in Hanoi today are "the executors of Ho Chi Minh's political testament, which really is an appeal to resist to the end." If they are faithful lieutenants, they will not be quick to abandon his policies?or his dreams...
That trial is traced with disturbing impact in a new book, The Prosecutor, by James Mills (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $5.95). The plot is Kafka in reverse. The prosecutor is a lonely man fighting impossible odds. His key witnesses are afraid to testify. The opposition's maneuvers force him to present his case to the jury like "a movie run too fast, with a lamp too dim and half the frames chopped out." According to Mosley, the case marked the first time in 20 years that Mafia defendants had been brought to trial for murder in New York City...
...like Moskva and Berlin. But such isolation has proved ineffective, partly because hotels for Easterners and Westerners are often identical. One night this summer, an English tourist, shnoggered on the delicious and potent local slivova, meandered into the wrong hotel, opened the door of room 220 with his own key and flopped into bed with a large and compliant Russian lady...