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...children. After deciding to send two of his sons to college near Washington, D.C., Rifaat last year spent $1.1 million on a mansion in Potomac, Md., which he furnished with armed guards, housekeepers and other retainers. Just one month later, the house was severely damaged by a fire of unknown origin, and the entire entourage apparently fled the country...
...ruling class of a government with which we have friendly diplomatic relations. At least on the technical level, there's no technical reason at all to deny him the visa. Until the Reagan Administration came along. Stopping government officials from travelling to the United States was practically unknown Now, in the question of Salvadoran Roberto d' Aubuisson, as I understand from the newspapers. Vice President Bush met with d' Aubuisson You can see the State Department's hand as it tries to gain some control over foreign policy. In Bush's meeting with him we see the reasserting...
There was some stiltedness (does Schlesinger actually pontificate so?) and show boating (TV Journalist Hodding Carter, who played a senior adviser, may be too well-trained), but such behavior is not unknown at NSC meetings. In all, The Crisis Game, with its snare-drum theme, was just hokey enough to entertain and good enough to edify...
...squad was brought in from Moscow. On the following morning, the security forces stormed the plane and the hijackers, reportedly the children of prominent Georgian officials, eventually surrendered. By the time the smoke had cleared, a crew member, a flight mechanic, an air hostess, at least three of the unknown number of passengers and one of the hijackers lay dead...
Researchers speculate the woman's reaction was caused by a natural toxin called atropine. Harmless traces of the substance had gotten into some packages of the tea in a still unknown way. At first Celestial's founder and chairman, Mo Siegel, 34, talked vaguely of "supply problems," but last week he gave a detailed explanation of the incident. Said one investment banker: "A lot of people would not have said anything. His decision was very ethical...