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...million, an amount equal to one-third of the national budget of Haiti, and has probably secreted much of it abroad. Cambronne's commercial interests included monopoly control of Haiti's fruit exports and lumber production, a large coffee exporting firm and Ibo Tours (a travel agency that dominated Haiti's lucrative quickie-divorce market for Americans). He has also trafficked in narcotics and was the silent partner in a firm that paid poor Haitians a pittance for their blood and then resold it at a huge profit in the U.S. Last week Baby Doc terminated...
...aided by Moscow, which also approved his Ostpolitik and exerted pressure on East Germany to cooperate-produced an agreement with East Berlin eleven days before the vote. Just before this week's vote, Brandt promised that "if I am reelected, I will not hesitate to propose that I travel to East Berlin myself-before Christmas if possible-to sign the basic treaty." All Barzel could do was suggest that his party would renegotiate the treaty on better terms...
...wine boom is evidence of a growing ease and worldliness in American lifestyles, as foreign travel and rising affluence open new horizons of taste. Says Philip Seldon, editor of Vintage, a highly successful new wine magazine: "I think America is coming of age. We are becoming conscious of our sense of taste. Perhaps we are becoming more European. We are discovering that there is nothing wrong with self-satisfaction." Hugh Johnson, a British writer who belongs to that newly prominent group of taste arbiters, the professional wine critics, takes a less cosmic view: "Wine needs no apology...
Left to Communist planners, the imbalances could remain uncorrected for years. But the fraternal masses themselves have found a sociably unsocialist solution that smacks of bourgeois free enterprise. Many Eastern nations now permit relatively free travel across each other's borders, and normal exchange of comradely greetings between Czechs and Hungarians, or Poles and East Germans, is increasingly accompanied by a comradely exchange of goods. As many as 35 million Eastern Europeans use their vacation trips to neighboring countries to buy, sell and barter consumer products. In the process they have created a flourishing underground consumer market-a kind...
LEADERSHIP QUALITIES Captain and two-way performer on the Crimson touch football team. Senior Marshall and good humor man. Leader of the Crime sports hordes. Travel coordinator for the Crimson touch team. In an excursion to New York before the Harvard-Columbia game, he drove the squad into the city. Practicing for the New York 500 (traffic fine dollars) Dake successfully challenged each and every cabble for the off-the-line-first title Dake ran three red lights, took a corner on two wheels in front of a New York's finest patrol car, consumed three dogs and a mess...