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Palestinians living outside the Middle East, including at least 150 multimillionaires in Europe and the Western Hemisphere, make regular and generous contributions to the cause. The movement also earns revenue by operating business enterprises, including a modern $8 million chicken farm in Syria. For a time Palestinians ran a popular and profitable discotheque in Rome. It was shut down by authorities, presumably because it might serve as a target for Israeli counterterrorist attacks...
Expanding Bureaucracy. The largest chunk of the money is still spent on training and terrorist operations; last week a Palestinian bomb went off near Tel Aviv, killing one person and wounding 26. One of the smaller and poorer fedayeen groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, took credit for the incident. But an increasing percentage of the revenues pay for a rapidly expanding bureaucracy. The P.L.O. has opened offices-in effect, quasi embassies-in about 100 nations. Heads of the larger offices in Europe and North America receive around $1,500 a month along with "representation" allowances...
...first defection of a Communist pilot since 1965, and from Taiwan's point of view it could not have been better timed. President Carter is eager to normalize relations with Peking. Taiwan hoped the defection would dramatize popular dissatisfaction with Communist rule in China and thus make the point that Peking is unworthy of recognition by an Administration that has put so much emphasis on human rights...
...Profit Records. A Beech deal would open up a new field for General Dynamics' aerospace expertise. At Beech, which is the nation's second largest maker of light aircraft (after Cessna), the big moneymaker has been the twin-engine turboprop King Air executive craft; it is popular with corporate customers because, although slower than a jet, it is more fuel-efficient and cheaper to buy (price: $600,000 to $1.6 million, depending on equipment, v. up to $3 million for some jets). Until now, Beech has shied away from entering the executive-jet business. But some industry experts...
...which the choreography is repeated but the performers, music and lighting shift. In Cloven Kingdom, a satire on modern manners, the dancers slide between the human and animal kingdoms. The bright costumes of Post Meridian seem to make their own choreography. In Esplanade, one of Taylor's most popular works, there is no traditional dancing at all, but rather a dizzying series of walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best-known male dancer, must run across the stage to catch Carolyn Adams. Says Gunn: "I have...