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Friedkin came to Boston along with 34 members of the 'Brink's" company to publicize the film's premiere on Thursday. 'The Brink's Job" was filmed last summer in Boston, the site of the original multimillion-dollar robbery of a Brink's armored car in the early 1950s...
Never before had a Cabinet officer from South Africa's ruling National Party been forced to resign in disgrace. Last week the spreading scandal over misuse of a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund within the now disbanded Department of Information claimed its first major victim: Cornelius P. ("Connie") Mulder, 53, powerful Minister of Plural Relations and Nationalist boss of South Africa's huge Transvaal province. Bowing to pressure from his party colleagues, Mulder reluctantly resigned from his euphemistically named Cabinet post, where he administered the apartheid laws that govern the lives of South Africa's 18.5 million blacks. Said Mulder...
DIED. Charles D. Tandy, 60, Texas industrialist who crafted a small leather business into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate; of an apparent heart attack; in Fort Worth. During World War II, Tandy noticed that disabled sailors liked leather-craft, and started marketing scraps and tools to hospitals through his father's shoe-leather company. By the early 1960s, he directed Tandy Corp., the nation's largest purveyor of handicrafts, and in 1963 added a bankrupt chain of ham-radio shops called Radio Shack that he eventually expanded into a company of 6,500 outlets, currently grossing more than...
...alleged misdeeds center on a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund operated by the Department of Information when Mulder was Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. According to Mostert's report, some of the funds, intended for a covert campaign to secure favorable coverage for South African policies in the foreign and domestic press, were diverted to dubious business ventures and the personal pleasures of departmental officials. The main schemers were identified as the brothers Eschel and Deneys Rhoodie, who until a few months ago served as Secretary and Deputy Secretary, respectively...
...more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have no other recourse but to use publicity by furnishing evidence to the newspapers that will destroy the false image of the family or by furnishing evidence and information to the IRS about a multimillion-dollar tax evasion." Michaelides, however, provided no evidence in the letter to support his charges...