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...victim was Marjorie Winifred Bird, a rich, neurotic American widow who hoped that the U.S. would one day be come a monarchy so that she could be its queen. The accused were Nicolas Sturdza, a penniless Rumanian homo sexual who styled himself prince and claimed that he was descended from the Moldavian kings, and Dr. Gérard Sa voy, a shady Lausanne psychiatrist who specialized in wealthy female patients and who, over the course of 18 months, prescribed for Mrs. Bird 18,970 barbiturate pills. Last week, in a Lausanne courtroom, the doctor was found guilty of murdering...
Peering into the opposite side of the crystal ball, other Kremlinologists interpreted the mission as a thinly veiled slap at Nikita by Rumanian Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, an old Stalinist who ostentatiously laid a wreath on Joe's tomb a few years ago. Rumania had already defied Soviet economic planners by building up its own industry rather than humbly serving as raw-material supplier for the rest of Eastern Europe. According to the latest theory, the boys from Bucharest were now parading their ideological independence from the Russians...
...fact, however, ideology may be less significant than economics in explaining the motive behind the Rumanian visit. Rumania is eager to find markets for exports; Bucharest's booming oil industry can easily fill Red China's desperate need for refining equipment. One solid indicator pointed to economics as a key factor: Peking's new Ambassador to Rumania, Liu Fang, is unknown as a diplomat but well known as the former vice-minister of Red China's faltering petroleum industry...
...include Mathematician Marshall Stone, son of the late Chief Justice, and Arabist Marshall Hodgson, author of The Assassins. James Redfield, son of the founder, is a classicist with a bent for cultural anthropology. Mircea Eliade is a professor of the history of religions, a Jungian psychologist, a novelist in Rumanian, and the envy of his students for being able to "drink whisky all night and never drop a line of conversation...
...Seymour was well-acquainted with the politics of the Wilson era. As a young professor at Yale, he was named to the American peace commission in Paris in 1919. He served as chief of the Austro-Hungarian division, and was also a member of the delegation on Rumanian-Yugoslav territorial disputes...