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...South Pacific island of Fiji. But taking the prime minister hostage appears to be becoming less odd and more par for the course in some of Britain's former Pacific island colonies. With no end to the Fijian standoff in sight more than two weeks after coup leader George Speight and a handful of cronies first seized Mahendra Chaudry and 30 other civilians as hostages, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Monday found himself sharing his Fijian counterpart's fate. Gunmen from a tribal militia have taken Bartholomew Ulufa'alu hostage and forced him to announce his retirement...
Credit card companies target college students aggressively for three reasons, according to Speight. The first is brand loyalty. Research shows that students who choose a product they like early on are very likely to stick with it, to the exclusion of all others, for as many as 20, 30 or even 40 years...
Second, the companies realize that college students, especially Harvard students, are likely to make and spend plenty of money once they graduate. "There's an assumption that people at Harvard are going to do very nicely, thank you," Speight says...
Colleen Dewhurst, L.H.D., actress. Clarence ("Hank") Speight, L.H.D.. chief groundsman. You have appeared out of nowhere on dark, wintry nights to rescue us from snow or ice or loneliness...
...broadcast clearly captured at least something of the flavor of the House, and not everyone found it palatable. "We'd never stand for this sort of audience in our business," said Comedian Mike Yarwood, one of whose specialties is impersonating Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Scriptwriter Johnny Speight, who created the British model for America's Archie Bunker, thought that the broadcast from the Commons "has the making of a good comedy series." Some disagreed. A BBC spokesman admitted that several peeved listeners had called in to ask what had happened to Listen with Mother, the regular program that...