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...ready to celebrate with the funkiest bash in East African history. In the reviewing stands at Kampala, a gaggle of Soviet Russians, Libyans, Cubans and representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization sat mesmerized by the show. Uganda army bagpipers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts marched by implausibly tootling Scotland the Brave. Undaunted by the number of invitations declined-notably by Henry Kissinger -the 300-lb. dictator exuberantly grabbed a spear and joined dancers in a local variant of the jig. After a speech in which he denounced the "Zionists and international bandits" who had visited Entebbe airport uninvited last July...
While we're on the subject of golf, the latest spin-off since the day when King James I ruled Scotland is frisbee golf. In brief, the players try to toss frisbees into baskets fastened to poles while avoiding the natural hazards that strew the course. Three free courses are enjoying heavy traffic in Loss Angeles Country. The one in Pasadena attracts 5000 players a week. The 18-hole low score...
Spanish Gold. Should would-be George and Georgina Plimptons so desire, they can guest-coach the Houston Rockets pro basketball team for $2,000 per couple per day. For the more active twosome, Sakowitz will serve up a weekend of treasure hunting for Spanish gold at the bottom of Scotland's Tobermory Bay, complete with licensed diver, plus bed and board at the Duke of Argyll's Inveraray Castle (cost: $50,000 a pair in Yankee green). Or, for $37,500 each, they can spend two weeks aboard a schooner retracing Darwin's voyage of the Beagle...
...stay on the company's board by threatening to put his 36% stock ownership up for sale if shareholders move against him. At parties, Fraser appears to be making a joke of the whole affair. He sang and danced two weeks ago at a gathering near his Scotland home in Drymen, Stirlingshire, and led guests in choruses of The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo...
More surprising, the government at the same time issued a deportation letter against a U.S.-born Fleet Street journalist, Mark Hosenball, who had frequently used Agee as a source of information. Scotland Yard did not detail the charges against Hosenball other than to assert that he had "sought information for publication which would be harmful to state security...