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...home, but Rockefeller was reluctant, not wanting to jeopardize his bank's relations with any of the contending factions in Iran. So Kissinger turned to Nelson Rockefeller, his old friend and mentor. Just two weeks before Rockefeller died, he helped find a suitable residence: the Palm Springs estate of Walter H. Annenberg, former Ambassador to Britain. The Shah, however, did not seek a U.S. visa; instead, he went to Egypt and then Morocco...
...first stops on a tour of Phnom-Penh was Toul Sleng Prison, once a French lycee. Within its quadrangle of three-story concrete buildings in a serene palm-studded quarter of the capital, 20,000 Cambodians were reportedly tortured and killed by Pol Pot's henchmen. The prison has now become a museum, crammed with grim mementos of the fallen regime's barbarity. On display are handcuffs, chains, bamboo cages and iron bars that were applied, red hot, to the genitals of prisoners. On a blackboard are inscribed the jailers' instructions to their victims: " 1. You must...
...there is only one doctor, a Vietnamese "adviser." Some 500 patients are crammed into the hospital in Kompong Speu, which has only 200 beds. The facility has no laboratory to analyze blood or urine or any means of boiling water. Outside the compound is a cluster of bamboo and palm-leaf huts housing 89 grievously undernourished orphans, whose bloated stomachs and matchstick limbs are signs of severe deficiencies. The staple of their woefully inadequate diet: powdered milk mixed with water trucked in from a river near...
DIED. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, 78, last of the madcap Marx brothers; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. The youngest Marx was pulled out of high school to replace his brother Gummo, who left the family vaudeville team before it moved to Hollywood. Cast as the straight man, Zeppo joined Chico (who died in 1961), Harpo (1964) and Groucho (1977) in five classic films, but he tired of his role and left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo...
While the younger Bok may have looked out of place on Brattle St., he would have been right at home in the old John Hancock Building in downtown Boston, where dozens of jewelry readers, Tarot wizards, and palm scanners gathered last night for the first annual "Psychic's Festival...