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...Nyet. Perot was a paradox to the Communists, who could not conceive of one man having so much power. To them, it was almost like dealing with a small, well-financed country. When the Viet Cong complained of civilian bombing by U.S. planes, Perot offered to make good the damages. When Hanoi said that if Moscow agreed, the packages would have to be delivered by Dec. 31, Perot, clad in light blue jump suit and sick with a virus, loaded his troupe of newsmen and Red Cross workers aboard the 707, chartered for $1,450 an hour...
Peace on Earth set down briefly at Anchorage, Alaska, where about 1,000 volunteers repacked the cargo in 6.6-lb. bundles to meet Moscow's postal specifications. But when Perot arrived in Copenhagen, the message from Moscow was nyet. He even tried a desperate call to Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin at home, to no avail...
Highly Motivated. Despite his widely publicized, seemingly quixotic journey, Ross Perot is a modest, if highly motivated man. The son of a cotton broker, he neither smokes nor drinks, drives a five-year-old car and buys his conservative suits off the rack. He met his wife Margot while he was an Annapolis midshipman, and they and their four children live in a relatively modest four-bedroom house in Dallas...
Only eight years ago, Perot was a salesman for IBM. He used $1,000 to form the Electronic Data Systems Corp., and in what FORTUNE called "perhaps the most spectacular personal coup in the history of American business," he made it an incredibly successful computer manufacturing company whose stock is now worth about $1.7 billion; Perot holds 83% of it. A political independent driven by a sincere love of country, Perot says: "I've always tried to use my money for programs for young people so they can lead the country in the next generation...
Toward this end, Perot has given away fortunes. He anonymously contributed $2.4 million to form an experimental elementary school for 1,000 poor Dallas black and Mexican Americans. An Eagle Scout during his Texarkana youth, Perot gave $1 million to the Boy Scouts to investigate ways of taking scouting into the ghetto. He gave a ranch to the Girl Scouts for a part-time boarding school for the underprivileged, and a Dallas high school gets $50,000 annually to subsidize tuition for poor Mexican Americans...