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...French visitor was recently invited to lunch with a well-educated Beirut merchant at his home, which was in an embattled Christian neighborhood. The visitor was thus not too surprised to see several Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifles-the most common weapon on both sides-stacked in a corner of the dining room. Lunch was a pleasant affair, filled with interesting conversation; when it was over the host invited his guest to view the city from his roof. There sat a mortar, pointed in the general direction of the battle lines of the day. As the Frenchman watched...
...crewmen of the Mayaguez did not seem destined for heroism. They were the sort of obscure seadogs found aboard any patched and battered merchant ship. In Rowan's nimble sketch, even the 62-year-old captain, Charles Miller, is not a born leader. Instead, he seems a canny, experienced old salt-the sort whose grace emerges only under pressure. Indeed, when the sailors considered an attempt to overpower their captors, it was Miller who counseled prudence and avoided bloodshed...
...broadcast a message, in broken German, saying he was extremely pleased and proud. He added that he hoped to come to Oslo to receive the medal and the $140,000 prize money at the ceremony to be held Dec. 10, the 79th anniversary of the death of Swedish Munitions Merchant Alfred Nobel...
...team, in consultation with Wyllie, has moved to sell off some of Hutchison's holdings. To raise $5 million, they peddled an 18% interest in a British investment firm. Company insiders expect that a commercial helicopter subsidiary may be sold off or folded, while management control of a merchant banking affiliate will be divested. Hutchison has also been selling off shares of other companies from its investment portfolio at a feverish pace, so confusing its books that accountants cannot even produce a sales estimate for 1974. Wyllie, a 43-year-old Australia-born millionaire with a reputation...
Sipple lives in the sleazy tenderloin district in a fourth-floor walk-up apartment incongruously decorated with a chandelier, stained-glass windows and peacock feathers. He shares it with a merchant seaman. Sipple is known in San Francisco's large homosexual community, and two of its leaders, the Rev. Raymond Broshears and Harvey Milk, tried to make capital for the cause of the gay image out of Sipple's act. But Sipple refused to accept the role. He also gave high marks to the Secret Service: "Those guys did a terrific job. What more could they...