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...PRESS HAS FOUND every bit of this self-congratulatory swill mm-mm good to the last drop. The most interesting event at the recording session, when Geldorf called Prince "a creep" in his absence, appeared only once in the press accounts. Most of the singers spent their non singing time getting each other's autographs and forming mutual admiration societies. By all accounts, what was supposedly one of the most touching artistic occasions in pop music history was little more than a Hollywood party without coke...
...brown desert. There were hundreds of them, Iranian infantrymen who had fought and died. A column of Iraqi tanks, their spotlights flickering through billows of thick dust, churned past the bodies toward the east; the roar of their engines blended into a continuous hum. As outgoing rounds of 130-mm artillery shook the windows of his headquarters nearby, Iraqi Major General Sultan Hashem Ahmed told a group of reporters: "There are no Iranian soldiers on Iraqi territory--not even...
...plot to kill the Pope was hatched during July and August of 1980. Italian court documents allege that Celik "actively cooperated in the crucial stages of the planning, final agreement and execution of the attempt on the Pontiff." It was Celik, according to Agca, who purchased four Browning 9-mm automatic pistols in Vienna, including the one Agca was to use to shoot the Pope. Since the attempt on Pope John Paul's life, Celik has been variously reported to be dead, secluded in Bulgaria or prospering in Latin America with a face altered by plastic surgery...
...competition with the last word in smoking chic--designer cigarettes. Reynolds in March will begin test-marketing Ritz, a brand that will feature the logo of France's Yves Saint Laurent on both the package and the individual cigarettes. Reynolds Vice President Sally MacKinnon says the new 100-mm regular and mentholflavored smoke is aimed at women in their 20s and 30s who are "more independent, probably tending to be single rather than married, and who spend more of their income on fashion and fashion accessories...
Last October, Eastman Kodak introduced still another format: an 8-mm video camcorder whose 30-, 60-or 90-minute videotapes are roughly the same size as a standard audio cassette. The 8-mm format is as light as other camcorders, is easy to use and can be attached to a tuner to record television programs. Kodak is clearly banking on acceptance of its format as a third home-video alternative...