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Some of the pictures he took are almost lighthearted. In one, a guard is caught napping in a patch of sunlight; in another, seven hostages are dining in a kitchen, a kettle on the stove, a yellow shirt and underwear drying in the window. But Hill also aimed his camera in earnest, particularly on one occasion when he was able to reach the roof of the building in which he and his fellow hostages were being held, and photographed the neighborhood. "I hoped to take pictures that investigators could use in the future to pinpoint our location," he said...
...just suddenly realized that the blue patch at me feet was water coming in," recalls Simon Le Bon. So began the ordeal at sea that the lead singer of the rock band Duran Duran calls "the worst experience of my life." Le Bon, 26, was asleep in the cabin of his 77-ft., $1.8 million yacht Drum during the final leg of the international Admiral's Cup race about two miles off the coast of Cornwall last week when the keel snapped off and the craft capsized. The singer and five of the 24-man crew were trapped...
This successful conspiracy between author and audience works best in the evanescent pages of a daily newspaper. Packed lead to kicker in book form, Buchwald's formula whimsy loses much of its punch. Verbal skits about Geraldine Ferraro, Michael Jackson, the President, home-computer miseries, the Pope and Cabbage Patch dolls now read like shots in the dark. Yet this and previous collections of the journalist's craft may one day enjoy new life. Buchwald's job is to repeat history as farce faster than one can say Karl Marx. To the patient reader, farce inevitably returns as nostalgia...
...also announced tariffs on its own exports of textiles to pre-empt possible moves by Europe and the U.S. to protect home markets. In this environment, the purchase by a state-owned Chinese oil producer of a U.S. rival no doubt would stir controversy. But in the global oil patch, China's surging appetite for reserves is now a fact of life. "Welcome to the oil business of the 21st century," says a senior executive at a major U.S. oil producer. "This is the new world...
...long-term $70 billion oil-and-gas deal with the Iranian regime. Would China sacrifice its oil needs to support sanctions? "This, potentially, could be the first time that China's oil interests run head on into our strategic interests," says a U.S. diplomat. In the global oil patch of the 21st century, it probably won't be the last. -With reporting by Nahid Siamdoust/ Tehran and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow