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...after flawlessly leading a helicopter raid on a heavily guarded P.O.W. camp near Hanoi only to discover to his chagrin that there were no Americans there to be rescued. Last February the retired colonel led a more fruitful rescue mission on behalf of his old friend H. Ross Perot, who asked him to free two of his Electronic Data Systems employees from a fortress-like Iranian prison. Simons succeeded after arranging for a street mob to storm the prison, from which 11,000 prisoners escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 4, 1979 | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...American exodus generated a number of implausible episodes of confusion and enterprise. One of the most unlikely involved William Gaylord and Paul Chiapparoni, employees of Electronic Data Systems, Inc., a Dallas-based computer company headed by a flamboyant patriot-chairman, H. Ross Perot. Arrested just before New Year's Day, the two men had been clapped into Tehran's Qasr jail, which then housed 11,000 prisoners. Unable to secure the men's release through State Department channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Now, Another Power Struggle | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Perot, who once tried to deliver Christmas presents and dinners to American P.O.W.s in North Viet Nam, says that he took matters into his own hands. As Perot tells the story, former Green Beret Colonel Arthur ("Bull") Simons, leader of the daring but unsuccessful raid on the Son Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam in 1970, agreed to lead a band of 14 volunteer commandos in an assault on the prison. After deciding that the unit was too small for the job, claims Perot, he arranged for a mob to do the job. There was indeed a prison break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Now, Another Power Struggle | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Herald American really isn't new at all, at least not yet. Bergenheim and others at the Herald promise more revisions in the paper, and more new writers. In the same issue that endorsed President Ford for re-election, the Herald announced that it had hired Mary Perot Nichols, formerly of The Village Voice. As of yesterday, Nichols was to begin work on a series called "The Power Brokers of Boston...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: The Ugly American | 11/9/1976 | See Source »

...Ruth S. Perot Mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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