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...Wife: "Mea Katie, meus Christus. I give more credit to Katherine than to Christ, who has done so much more...
Britain moved first. Unhappy over Bedas' refusal to buy British Aircraft VC10s for Intra-owned Middle East Airlines (MEA), Whitehall pressured Kuwait into transferring funds away from Intra and into Britain to shore up the pound. Then the government of France, which owns 15% of MEA, covets the rest, and doesn't like pro-American Bedas in any case, blocked an Intra bid to build a seriously needed new European headquarters in Paris. Next Russia, always glad to oblige in such matters, had its Narodny Bank withdraw the $5,000,000 it had deposited with Intra. Narodny staffers...
...their pockets. Bedas, who was out of the country when the crisis struck, has stayed out, but has been scouring the U.S. and other financial markets, where he has raised a reported $70 million. And if the bank wants to raise cash by selling off such assets as MEA, the interested buyers include France, Russia, Kuwait and even Stavros Niarchos. Intra, in short, claims it could open tomorrow if it were allowed to. Despite a heavy dose of press criticism, Yaffi's government is going slow. "We are working hard," says Intra's Salha. "But when...
...until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal in Belgium but, granted an amnesty, left the country with this bitter entry in the customs book: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea";* of a heart attack; in Nassau, West Germany...
This sort of mea culpa colloquy sounds at moments like a quartet of Paris cab drivers divvying up the honors from a four-way crash. But Enough Rope, despite one or two lapses in its logic, never loses its head en route to an ironic final twist...