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POLICY DISPUTES. According to insurance-industry executives, publisher Malcolm Forbes took out millions of dollars worth of life insurance with different companies in the years preceding his death. He often said this was an efficient way to pass along money to his heirs, but now at least one of the insurers is balking -- and investigating some of the information the publisher supplied on his applications. Says Richard Bevilacqua, public relations director for John Hancock: "Forbes had a multimillion-dollar policy that was taken out in the last two years. A claim has been filed, but we have not paid...
...current generation, the first to come of age after the civil rights battles of the '60s and '70s. Most parents of today's undergraduates remember Freedom Summer and the Selma march, but somehow they have failed to impart the lessons to their children. When confronted with the name of Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, for example, one white student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst innocently asked her professor, "Who is this Malcolm the Tenth?" Says Daniel Levitas, executive director of the Atlanta-based Center for Democratic Renewal: "We have today a whole young society that...
Elsewhere there have been some unlikely victories for old-fashioned activism. Few could have imagined that Toni Luckett, a lesbian and an Afro- American studies major with spiked hair and a flair for quoting Malcolm X, could build a minority coalition and get elected student-body president at the University of Texas. Long a stronghold of white frat men, the university had no experience with firebrands. Luckett is changing all that. Preaching confrontation, Luckett has staged rallies that have put the university on notice that recent racial incidents cannot go unpunished. "The issues have been burning for years," she says...
...described in literary circles as a "chilling effect." Publishers are cautious about acquiring new books that may cause long delays and legal expenses. Writers who have devoted years and heavy expenses to a project can suddenly find their efforts wasted. After two decades of research for his biography of Malcolm X, Bruce Perry, a scholar formerly on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, is eliminating major portions of his book. They include extensive paraphrasings from Malcolm's autobiography -- a work, incidentally, that was written by Alex Haley. Ron Nessen, former presidential press secretary to Gerald Ford, sued the Washingtonian...
...make the grade are hunting for espionage jobs in the West. Most are turned away. "If the KGB did not want them, why should we?" says a senior British diplomat. Many agents end up working in Western countries for Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya. "It makes sense," says Malcolm Mackintosh, senior fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They are less conspicuous in the West than Arabs are." The cold war may be over, but for spies the basic method remains the same: the art of survival is founded on the practice of deception...