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...Connally to become more active in Democratic party affairs-assuming Connally does not bolt permanently to the Republicans. Some associates have reported a certain coolness between the Texas buddies, but they still share a lake house where their families vacation together and the two pols sip whisky and swap yarns...
...packing the Volkswagen camper. Richardson, 36, business manager of a private school near San Francisco, has taken his wife and four children to the Sierras, five hours away, every winter for the past six years. As usual, the preparations began in October, when the Richardsons attended a "ski swap" and exchanged with others the gear that the children had outgrown. The Richardsons had been setting money aside every month since last spring for the vacation, cutting corners wherever they could. Wife Betsy made casseroles and froze them so the family could dine cheaply at its rented ski house. Says Bill...
...agree to the terms, the prisoners were to be returned to West Germany. In preparation for the deal, Lufthansa Board Chairman Herbert Culmann and the three prisoners boarded a Hawker Siddeley executive jet, which was to remain in West German airspace until the terrorists agreed to a direct swap...
...Rumanian gasoline in December. Most of his deals are financed by U.S. banks and the Government's Export-Import Bank. Because of the Communists' shortage of hard currency, Ross thinks that there is a better future in barter arrangements. He is trying to put together a swap between Scott Research, an American producer of automobile antipollution equipment, and the Rumanian auto industry, which must equip its U.S.-bound vehicles to meet 1975 emission standards...
...trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans, Europeans, Africans and North Americans in politics and terror. But most contacts are not for the purpose of training and underground activity. Often, says one intelligence expert in Europe, they merely "get together from time to time over a joint to swap experiences and ideas." A diplomat in Beirut who has been keeping watch on international guerrillas there estimates that they number no more than 200 altogether and that "the links are more of a romantic nature than anything else...