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...stretch of prairie north of Fort Worth seems an unlikely home for the "industrial hub of tomorrow." Yet this is where Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot is constructing a 9,600-ft. runway that will carry mostly industrial products rather than human passengers. Perot and his son H. Ross Jr., 30, who heads the project, envision the Alliance Airport as the center of a 4,200-acre industrial park in which companies will manufacture products and distribute them by air freight...
...signing by Native Americans and Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin -- has been receiving the kind of diligent attention usually given a gravely ill head of state. A team of eleven has meticulously removed the contaminated soil from around its huge root network, and last week billionaire H. Ross Perot flew in 18 technical specialists from around the nation to assist in a bedside diagnosis...
...would not put up the money unless it got proof that the informant really was in touch with Buckley's captors. So in May, North raised the $200,000 from Perot. He then described the plan in a June 7, 1985, memo to McFarlane. The $200,000, he indicated, would only be a kind of down payment; eventually $2 million would be needed from "the donor" to rent a yacht to bring the hostages to Cyprus, to set up a safe house for them on the island and, apparently, to pay additional bribes...
...scribbling even got Buckley's middle initial wrong). The DEA agents have told colleagues that they then warned North the whole deal looked like a scam. Trible disputes this; he says the agents pressed ahead with the scheme. In any case, says Trible, North dispatched a messenger to pay Perot's $200,000 to the informant, who was someplace overseas. The money disappeared...
...October 1985, Buckley's captors announced that they had "executed" him. Even that did not discourage North; three months later he talked Perot into forking over an additional $100,000. Perot has no idea what happened to it; all he knows is that in mid-1986 North asked for $1 million more, to be handed over to someone who was supposed to bring five hostages to Cyprus by boat. A Perot courier flew to the island, sat around for a week waiting vainly for the hostages to show up, and returned with the cash. Although Perot...