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...LONELY NOW, by Francis Clifford. The author is the latest practitioner of the le Carré school of thriller writing, and he offers a properly murky plot and even cloudier characters...
...task of achieving a real peace promises to be infinitely more protracted. After years of futile, ruinous enmity toward Israel, the Arabs conceivably might decide that their best hope for the future lies in neighborly relations between the heirs of Isaac and Ishmael. More probably, envenomed by their latest defeat, they could embark on a new orgy of irredentist fervor, thereby proving once more, as Radio Algiers put it last week, that "the only language between Israel and the Arabs is the language of iron and fire...
...Duke's selling success is his $175,000 house that sprawls behind a seven-foot wall at Newport Beach. Amidst the semitropical garden setting are eleven rooms, seven baths and a projection studio. Inevitably, there is a kidney-shaped pool, and also a playroom for his three latest children, aged 18 months to ten years, by present wife Pilar Pallette, 38, a Peruvian-born actress-model. He has had two previous wives (both also Latin American), four other children and twelve grandchildren...
Through Interpol, police the world over can trace a Bombay jewel thief with a dozen aliases and passports, study the latest research on police use of helicopters, learn how Lebanon is persuading farmers to grow sunflowers instead of hashish-or call on the FBI's monumental files of 184 million fingerprints. By holding annual conventions on a different continent each year, Interpol unites the world's fuzz-Tokyo detectives, Canadian mounties, U.S. narcotics agents-for mutual education in everything from electronics to odonto-grams (tooth identification). In addition, Interpol organizes regular seminars on scientific crime detection, sends forgery...
...Meadows is content to let the experts thrash it out. Nothing, he feels, must stand in the way of satisfying the "ever-increasing need to expand the cultural resources of the Southwest-to go hand in hand with the vast technical and industrial development of the area." In his latest haul, he is certain that he has netted at least two beauties: Zurbarán's Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine ("It gives you a feeling of serenity") and Goya's Man on Horseback ("It's fabulous-a joyful painting...