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Manuel also denies that he was the middleman between the White House and Schiavone in hiring the detectives. Like Shortley, he is a close friend of Hickey's and was once a client of Meese's law firm in California. Indeed, Meese and Hickey tried to employ Manuel as a White House consultant not long after Reagan's Inauguration last year. Hickey put through a formal request to hire Manuel and gave the sleuth a temporary White House pass that was valid until April 1981. Hickey, whose duties include overseeing Air Force One and Camp David, says...
...penciling a manuscript-there is no manuscript-Halliday finds himself enmeshed in devious negotiations initiated by a Persian Gulf emir identified only as the Ruler. The potentate is eager to lease territory he controls to NATO as a major allied military base. Zander-Luccio, the Pike, serves as middleman in the deal, hoping that a grateful U.S. Government will thereafter provide him with political asylum and a new identity. After a long career of nastiness in the Middle East, he has learned that he is the target of an international hit gang named Muk h abarat Zentrum (secret intelligence service...
...Bond villains usually reveal to a considerable degree the tenor of the times in which the films are made. Consider: The last three Bonds--The Spy Who Loved Me. Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only--have centered on weapons and the control thereof. There is usually a swarthy middleman--in the case of Eyes, a Greek smuggler--who tries the sell the technology to the Soviets. Thus, the growth in international military tension in recent years. In contrast, The Man With the Golden Gun, made in the mid-70s, was concerned with energy technology. Perhaps in the next Bond, Octopussy...
...business corruption. In Saudi Arabia, a key government minister is widely reported to have collected upwards of $500 million in "commission fees" in connection with foreign business ventures in the past year alone. To do business in Saudi Arabia, it is essential to be connected, via an agent or middleman, to a member of the royal family, which controls not just the government but business as well. Says a veteran U.S. businessman bluntly: "Everyone needs a prince." Finding one is not hard; there are 5,000 princes in the royal family this underpopulated nation of 6 million...
...royalty payments. Over the years, the Procter & Gamble Co., makers of Crest toothpaste, paid Indiana University more than $2 million because Indiana held a patent on stannous fluoride. The novel element in Bok's proposal was the idea that universities could make more money by cutting out the middleman and sharing directly in the equity of their own product-development companies. As costs rise throughout higher education, commercial temptations will grow, and the search for ways to turn campus research into cam pus revenue will intensify...