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...cooking and gastronomy, to draw up a short list of books that he considers essential to the kitchen library. Hungarian-born Lang is a renowned chef, author, designer, restaurateur (Manhattan's charming Cafe des Artistes), and president of the George Lang Corp., which creates restaurants from Manhattan to Manila...
...opens a large, crumpled manila envelope. It has been lying on the desk menacing him. He can no longer wait. But his anxiety changes to disappointment when he discovers it is his own film script, returned; United Artists has reduced it to a synopsis and a cliche plot critique...
Early one morning last week, Philippine Brigadier General Teodulfo Bautista, accompanied by 34 of his men (including five colonels), strode trustingly into the tiny marketplace of Patikul on Jolo Island, some 600 miles south of Manila. Bautista, 49, had come to Patikul for peace talks with Osman Salleh, a local chieftain of the Moro National Liberation Front, which has been fighting a civil war in the southern islands for nearly five years. Salleh had hinted that his 150 men were ready to join the government's side. As he greeted Bautista with a smile, a harsh voice shouted, "Dapal...
When he was seized, Berkowitz was carrying a manila envelope; in it was the .44-cal. pistol that had been used in all of the Son of Sam murders. He also had a semiautomatic rifle, simulated to look like a submachine...
...charged with common crimes. Thus as a sign of political mellowing, the prisoner release has become, as one dissident churchman puts it, "basically meaningless and hypocritical." Moreover, though Marcos has promised that mistreatment of prisoners will be harshly dealt with, the Commission of Jurists charges that torture continues in Manila's "safe houses," where pre-detention center suspects are held...