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...doctor, was sitting behind me. George, who's better known as "Doctor Leopard" around Chicago, was yelling like a madman--so loud that I couldn't even hear the captain call the shots when the team was in place on the line of cribbage. So, even though it was Papa Tiger sitting behind me, I turned around and told him to pipe down. I mean, just because he is the Bears' team doctor, it doesn't give him a right to go around yelling at the top of his lungs so no one else can hear what's going...
...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
...only we could get someone close to the White House," Shahati told Papa. "My American friends in the oil business tell me that this Billy Carter is approachable and likable." Papa was surprised that Leanza, being from Georgia, did not know Billy, but he persuaded Leanza to carry an engraved invitation to Billy from the Libyan government to visit that country at its expense...
...Duvalier's marriage to Michèle-a divorcee whose former father-in-law once tried to overthrow Baby Doc's late father, "Papa Doc" Duvalier-signal a possible new moderation? Probably not. The real significance seemed to be the consolidation of Baby Doc's power within the family fiefdom, in which his mother, Simone, for instance, still holds the title of First Lady of the Republic. In this dynastic system, a princely heir will help ensure perpetual rule...
Ever since he succeeded his father François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier as Haiti's President for Life nine years ago, Son Jean-Claude has been known among a few close friends and many mocking enemies as Baby Doc. Though he still carries a lot of baby fat at 28, Jean-Claude is obviously a big fellow now. Over the protests of his mother Simone, he is about to marry the woman he loves, delicious Divorcee Michèle Bennett, 27. Mother objected principally because her future daughter-in-law's former father-in-law Alix Pasquet...