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Egyptian officials said the mastermind of the plot was Abboud Zomor, a major in the Egyptian army who deserted several weeks before the assassination. Zomor was captured two weeks ago after a gun battle near the pyramids. The four other men captured immediately after the attack are now reported to be in good health, and will soon be tried and, if found guilty of murder, presumably executed...
...mental case" and "a lunatic." African neighbors fear his expansionist ambitions. The U.S. considers him an international outlaw and has accused him of meddling in no fewer than 45 nations. When Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre were looking for a villain to cast as the mastermind of a plot to hold New York City up for nuclear blackmail in their novel The Fifth Horseman, they naturally settled upon Gaddafi...
Unfortunately, the Astronomy department has decided to discontinue the course, despite the fact that none of the members of the department has ever audited the course. Instead of considering the educational value of the course, they're concerned about its "gut" reputation. Furthermore, Professor Eric Chaisson, the mastermind behind the course, will probably be asked to leave at the end of the year, unless he is granted tenure...
...bank had zeroed in on the records of a black boxing promoter named Harold Smith, 37, chairman of an organization called Muhammad Ali Professional Sports, or MAPS, which seemed to be at the center of the scam. But as the investigation went on it became clear that the real mastermind was Lewis, a black who, like Smith, was a board member of MAPS. When told during a Jan. 23 interrogation that auditors from the head office in San Francisco would see him after lunch, Lewis walked out and never returned...
...Terry Dolan has come a long way since 1967. Armed with the most sophisticated mass-mailing system in the country--courtesy of New Right mastermind Richard Vigueric--Dolan helped unseat several of the Senate's most powerful old-guard Democrats last year. Among the "targets" who fell were George McGovern of South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Frank Church of Idaho. Now, Dolan plans to expand his attack--launching his leaflets at several members of the GOP up for re-election in 1982, including Sens. John Chafee (R-R.I.), Robert Stafford (R-Vt.), and Weicker, whom he will...