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...Boris Buriatov, a sometime singer known as Boris the Gypsy, who reportedly made himself conspicuous among the drably dressed denizens of Moscow by wearing a long sable coat, mink tie and diamond neckpin. He was arrested earlier this year and is rumored to have been involved in a multimillion-dollar diamond theft ring. When Boris was questioned by police about the large cache of diamonds discovered in his possession, :the name of a close friend is said to lave come up: Brezhnev's daughter Galina...
Certainly the spirit is willing, and the means for reform near at hand. CBN, which Robertson founded in 1960 with $70 cash, one camera and a fading 1,000-watt station in Portsmouth, Va., has become a multimillion-dollar operation (1981 income: $68 million). By the mid-'70s, CBN had added two more owned-and-operated stations, in Atlanta and Dallas, to its Portsmouth base, but what really turned the electronic tide for Robertson was a satellite. CBN beat out its brethren by leasing a transponder on RCA's Satcom 2 satellite in April 1977, thus enlarging...
...attending public and private colleges in the state. Illinois has approved the selling of tax-exempt bonds to provide an independent college student loan fund. Yale University is raising tuition by about 14%, partly to increase scholarship funds. Dickinson College, a small private school in Pennsylvania, has established a multimillion-dollar fund to loan money to parents whose children no longer qualify for guaranteed student loans...
...everything from quantities of arms to bomb factories to enterprises devoted to turning out fake police and military uniforms and even fake license plates. At one location the army also found the body of U.S. Businessman Clifford Bevens, 56, who was kidnaped in December 1980 and held for a multimillion-dollar ransom. The guerrillas shot Bevens when their hideout was surrounded by soldiers and police...
...biggest acquisition of all was in 1979, when it paid $1.3 billion, or 40% over market value, for C.I.T. Financial Corp., a consumer loan and insurance firm. To raise the money, the company had to borrow heavily on the commercial paper market, where big corporations sell multimillion-dollar short-term lOUs to banks and other institutional investors...