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...market had an element of mystery as well. The buying binge may have been fueled by a single investor group, possibly a Middle East consortium. One rumor has it that the Sultan of Brunei, monarch of the oil-rich country in northeast Borneo, has been buying millions of ounces of gold during the past month. He oversees a fortune estimated at $30 billion, and is said to be the world's richest man. Certainly he has the cash to play the gold market. TELEVISION Creating Static in the Skies...
Speaking careers can be catapulted into orbit at the I.P.A. convention. Last year's amateur winner, Joe Schwartz, 74, of North Hollywood, Calif., now lectures for $1,000 a shot. on how to beat retirement. The exiled monarch of Tunisia, King Rechad al-Mahdi, 38, was virtually unknown when he spoke soporifically about the need for a constitutional monarchy two years ago. But an enterprising agent now gets him $2,500 for a lecture called "A Royal Saga." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington
Morocco's King Hassan II was somber as he stared across the octagonal conference room of his palace in Casablanca last week. In almost the same breath in which he declared open a summit meeting of the 21-member League of Arab States, the monarch deplored "the existence of vacant seats" at the first such gathering in three years. The brocaded chairs intended for Syria, Lebanon, South Yemen, Algeria and Libya were empty. Of the remainder, only eight were filled by heads of state. Most notably absent was Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who was represented by Crown Prince Abdullah...
...Amman, Peres' speech drew a surprisingly favorable response from Hussein. In an interview with the New York Times, the Jordanian monarch called the Israeli offer "a positive one in its spirit," even though it failed in "meeting the needs of the moment." Peres, in turn, was described as "positively surprised" by Hussein's receptiveness...
...long shot, but maybe one of them just bumped into her at a Florida condo. Whether you find your old chums or not, you might make some new ones--folks who also remember the Broadway trolley's cane seats and the pizza at the Monarch Grill. Who knows? Maybe someone will write to me with news--even Sylvia, wondering, "Sidney, all those years, where were you?" --By Francine Russo...