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...DIED. ENRIQUE ZOBEL, 77, Filipino industrialist who, as president of Ayala Corp., helped transform a swampy outskirt of Manila into the city's financial district; in Muntinlupa, Philippines. A scion of the wealthy Zobel de Ayala family, Enzo, as he was known by his countrymen, had a reputation as a high-flying but hard-working tycoon who later became a generous philanthropist, particularly after a polo accident in 1991 left him paralyzed from the neck down. Recalled fellow Manila businessman Guillermo Luz: "He was proud to be the working rich...
...armed camp under attack and seige by the anti-popular forces of East and West. But among the most sympathetic voters were elderly Christians of quite different views. Combined with them, and providing the largest part of the majority vote, were the farmers and fishermen and family members of "outskirt Norway" whose quite substantial living standards are possible only under the type of governmental protection and subsidization which, it was feared. European-wide arrangements made in Brussels would preclude...
...Roman orgy-size baths that would accommodate six or eight at a time. The progressive, Rene Avelli met his Waterloo when he declared that Mick Jagger & Co. were welcome. After all, Mougins is already home to Pablo Picasso, and even though the artist lives rather quietly in a remote outskirt, how much notoriety can one town endure? The Stones were last reported seeking out the warmer climate of St.-Tropez...
...French did not want to lose a capital, however unimportant. They flew in reinforcements, swept the outskirt junglebrush to clear their field of fire, and borrowed the royal elephants to haul wood for their entrenchments. The French believed they could hold Luang Prabang, but the Communists had already loped 100 miles toward the city from their start line-a headline that went round the world. Men died in these skirmishes, but the fact remains that Indo-China is not primarily a real-estate war. So far, Navarre has denied the Communists what they most want-the rice-rich delta around...
...series of indictments. In Pennsylvania a CWA engineer was dismissed for having taken a commission on a CWA job. The Oregon department of the American Legion passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were booted off a CWA sewer job. In the District of Columbia, skilled workers in the Navy Yard complained that their wage-88? an hour, less 15%-was under the $1.10 CWA rate. In West...