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But he is unlikely to change from blue jeans into a suit or trade in his Dodge van for a Mercedes. Nor is he likely to drop the role of the eternal cutup. "I'll have the grilled baby chicken," he said last week as he sat down for an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Eternal Cutup at Work | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

The two men became hostages by chance after missing a Beirut airport bus and deciding to take a taxi. When a Mercedes pulled alongside and ordered them to stop, they expected a robbery. Instead they were forced into the back of the gunmen's car. What followed was three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Years in the Belly of Beirut | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

One of the most serious blows against Schafer came from the testimony of Baar, a onetime member of the colony's inner circle who escaped in 1984, leaving behind nine children. Baar decried his former colleague as a paranoid dictator who rode around the compound in a bulletproof Mercedes-Benz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile Colony of the Damned | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

In Beirut the ordeal of the three French hostages ended as abruptly as it had begun. Last Wednesday evening a Mercedes roared up to the Summerland Hotel, carrying Diplomats Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine and Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who had been held captive since 1985. Syrian security forces hustled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages By Negotiation and by the Sword | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

The business community was more friendly, in the person of Rasul Barat, 31, a dapper entrepreneur who boasted, "Half of Mazar-i-Sharif is mine." Barat welcomed his guests with a poolside barbecue complete with lamb kabob and imported German beer. Elected a short time ago to the Afghan legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Looking Toward the Final Days | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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