Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Orlando's rococo industry of make-believe has put some zip into local gossip columns. Hollywood celebrities pop up regularly. Some, like Steven Spielberg and Robert Earl, the British mastermind behind the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes, have even bought homes in Orlando. The area, says Earl, is "full of millionaires driving trucks and wearing jeans...
...people I've slept with, stabbed in the back or driven to suicide." And why shouldn't the cast members be happy to take the money and trudge? "I'm never gonna get another job that pays this much," says Hagman, who serves as co-executive producer with Dallas mastermind Leonard Katzman. "Hell, I make as much as Jack Nicholson...
...list of contributing authors includes renowed commentators like novelists W.P. Kinsella, Robert Coover and "Baseball for Peace" mastermind Jay Feldman, as well as many talented rookies. As for the stories themselves...you can almost feel the press of the fans and smell the seat on a broken-in mitt...
Among Saddam's allies are the Abu Nidal organization, believed to be responsible for some of the most savage terrorist attacks in recent years, and Abul Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro. But Saddam has also larded Iraqi diplomatic missions with potential terrorists. Says a former member of Saddam's feared secret police, the Mukhabarat: "There are teams outside Iraq ready to do many things. About 80% of Iraqi embassy personnel overseas work for the Mukhabarat...
Even by the convoluted standard of North African politics, Deby and Gaddafi are strange bedfellows. As adviser for security and defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of plotting a coup last year, Deby fled to the Sudan, where he began recruiting his army. A final three-week assault launched last month quickly overwhelmed forces loyal to Habre, who fled across the Chari River into Cameroon...