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...innocently going with the gang on a heist one night is to be pushed by Reinhold from the van and have his right arm crushed under the wheel of an approaching car. Reinhold pushes other things on Franz: his cast-off women. Soon the one-armed man is a secondhand stud for a series of gross, silly and pathetic trollops. There are three exceptions: Lina (Elisabeth Trissenaar), gorgeous and sassy, whom Franz meets soon after his release from prison; Eva (Hanna Schygulla), a former mistress who is now an expensive call girl; and Mieze (Barbara Sukowa), a simple, gentle girl...
Agca's allegations provided no new details of the plot. But by repeating in public the charges made in his secret confession, which until now have been reported only secondhand, Agca buttressed the Italian investigators' claim of East bloc involvement. Agca, however, has changed his story repeatedly in the past, and critics of the government investigation fear that the case depends almost entirely on his possibly unreliable testimony. To no one's surprise, Bulgarian and Soviet officials have vehemently denied any part in the conspiracy...
...Chirico (not the prewar master of strange, oneiric cityscapes, but the De Chirico of the 1930s, with his kitschy antique pretensions) and, more reconditely, to the paintings of De Chirico's brother, who took the name Alberto Savinio. With tongue in cheek, Chia has assembled a whole secondhand wardrobe of classical nostalgia: a painting like Figures with Flag and Flute, 1983, with its bearded sage listening to the pipings of a young musician amid the rubble of some temple, thus manages to be both knowing and undemanding. It evokes complicity; artist and viewer share their camp enjoyment...
...Soviet Union can acquire such items of American high technology through industrial espionage, outright theft, or by purchasing them secondhand from companies in nations that are either allied with the U.S. or neutral and that got them from U.S. firms. The problem for the U.S., says Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, is "finding a way of assuring our national security with minimal damage to the American business community...
...weeks after TeleVideo goes public, Gulfstream Aerospace is expected to follow. Paulson, a former airline mechanic who once sold secondhand airplanes, set up a company in 1976 that two years later bought Grumnian American Aviation Corp., maker of the Gulfstream line of corporate aircraft. Its principal product, the 19-passenger Gulfstream III fanjet aircraft, costs upwards of $10.5 million and, according to the offering prospectus, boasts the longest range and fastest cruising speed of any business aircraft. In 1982 the Savannah-based company's sales rose by 33%, to $575.5 million, and profits more than tripled, to $43 million...