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...privacy in the family quarters on the second floor. Not so Ronald Reagan's beloved Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara. When the Reagans are in residence, TV networks station cameras with giant telephoto lenses on a hilly knob in the Santa Ynez Mountains, three miles from the presidential retreat. Even from that distant vantage point, the equipment is almost powerful enough to show how many rashers of bacon are on the Reagans' breakfast plates. This summer ABC was especially eager to capture a recuperating Reagan on horseback, so the news editors went to the sports division for an even...
ENGAGED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress of stage and screen (Dangerous Moves), autobiographer (Choices) and emissary for unicef; and Donald L. Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; at her summer retreat near Sandefjord, on Norway's south coast. It will be the second marriage for Ullmann, who also had a long relationship with Swedish Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, the father of her daughter Linn...
...Congratulations! You are the winner of a weekend retreat in the Bahamas. Enclosed please find your champagne-flight boarding pass." So began an apparent promotional letter from Puno Aero Tours to some 200 seemingly lucky Floridians. On the appointed day, the letter continued, the winners would be picked up for a ride to the airport in limousines. They were indeed picked up -- by federal marshals masquerading as chauffeurs. The would-be vacationers, handcuffed within moments after climbing into the cars, were all fugitives, wanted on charges ranging from embezzlement and grand theft to rape. Puno Aero Tours was a front...
...neighbors, Leonard Lake, a burly, self-described "survivalist," seemed like an ordinary if slightly ornery fellow. But after a chance arrest in San Francisco earlier this month, Lake committed suicide while in police custody. When officers drove to his two-acre mountain retreat 140 miles northeast of San Francisco, they discovered what was in effect a death camp. Searchers unearthed the remnants of at least five charred bodies and carried away 50 bags of chopped-up bones and other evidence. Police believe that Lake and his accomplice, 24-year-old Charles Ng (pronounced Ing), may be responsible for killing...
...setting for the meeting was Taif, a restful summer retreat outside the Saudi Arabian city of Jidda, but the mood of the participants was far from relaxed. Representatives from nine of the 13 feuding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries got together informally last week to debate what to do about falling oil prices. Several members of the group, including Nigeria and Ecuador, have been offering under-the-table discounts and exceeding their OPEC-decreed production quotas. As a result, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd directed Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Oil Minister, to deliver an ultimatum...