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...government's small but honest and able corps of economic technocrats went over the books in the wake of Dee's flight, they uncovered one financial horror story after another. The Construction and Development Corp. of the Philippines, which is run by longtime Marcos Pal Rodolfo Cuenca, has borrowed or obtained government loans and guarantees of about $1 billion, a Chrysler-size package put through without any debate or publicity. Cuenca was just a small businessman before Marcos came to power. Several other companies are also in hock to the government for an additional $1.75 billion...
...wealthy land speculator (Richard Crenna) 20 years older than she. But her ambition is "to be rich and live in an exotic land." The insurance money that would be hers with her husband's death represents air fare to that dream world. And Ned-lousy lawyer, good pal, nice-guy stud-may prove to be her passport...
...winner was sometimes determined by who sat in the Oval Office. PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall got the right to bottle and sell Pepsi in the Soviet Union in 1972, when his friend Richard Nixon was in the White House. After Jimmy Carter moved to Washington, his old Atlanta pal Coca-Cola Chairman J. Paul Austin captured the exclusive right to sell Coke to a billion Chinese. Rarely, though, has the Coke-Pepsi rivalry gone so far as in Thailand, where it has now led to two deaths...
...figure of taciturnity and gangling good looks, the Westerner has come to England to explore the roots his forebears pulled up in 1642. He settles in as squire of the ancestral village, Castle Lancing, is accepted at the local pub, marries into the aristocracy, and even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy...
...agreement with Syria last year, had sent men and equipment into Lebanon to aid the Palestinians. According to sources in Beirut, between 400 and 500 Libyan officers -not troops-have arrived in Lebanon over the past two weeks to act as advisers. The Libyans were sent in to instruct Pal estine Liberation Organization commandos of every group except Fatah, the largest, and some left-wing militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya has recently funneled through Syria. At a rally in Beirut late last week, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., said...