Word: royals
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...South Pacific archipelago of Fiji. Just ten days after Lieut. Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka marched into Parliament and arrested the recently elected government, a relaxed crowd of some 3,000 Fijians gathered outside the Civic Center in the capital city of Suva. People danced to pop tunes played by the Royal Fijian Armed Services band, which included in its program, appropriately, Bridge over Troubled Waters and Onward Christian Soldiers. When Lieut. Colonel Rabuka appeared, the band enthusiastically struck up the song...
...billion battle royal between Texaco and Pennzoil suddenly became more of a free-for-all last week. Robert Holmes a Court, an Australian financier and aggressive corporate raider, informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he had bought more than 15.5 million, or 6.4%, of Texaco's 242 million outstanding shares for $541 million "exclusively for purposes of investment." The Australian tycoon said he has no intention of mounting a takeover bid for the third-ranking U.S. oil company (1986 revenues: U.S. oil company (1986 revenues: $32.6 billion). But Wall Street experts believe that whatever Holmes a Court...
Prick Up Your Ears is as much the story of Halliwell's failure as it is Orton's success. An older, better educated man who picks up the boisterous Orton at a class in London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he infuses the youth with his literary pretentions and dreams of being a novelist. That it is Orton who actually lives out those dreams drives Halliwell mad; Molina gives a surprisingly sympathetic rendering of the murderer, portraying Halliwell's vascillation between pride in his young charge's accomplishments and jealousy of his fame...
From the outset, North was not exactly cautious in his dealings with the purported Saudi prince. When he was first approached through an intermediary in 1984, he made only a cursory check of public sources about the Saudi royal family. Even though he could find no Prince Ibrahim, North did not pursue the matter. Rather than deal with the prince directly, however, he steered him to Richard Miller, a public relations agent and associate of Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell. Last week Channell pleaded guilty to conspiring with North and Miller to raise money for the contras through a fraudulent...
...that Miller even vouched for him after Zadeh had bounced a $250,000 check at the William Penn Bank in Philadelphia. In documents released last week, Miller was said to have repeated the yarn that the prince was being victimized as a result of "religious differences" within the Saudi royal family, and even offered to cover the amount of the bad check. Bank officials, however, called...