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Died. Elyesa Bazna, 66, better known as "Cicero," famed World War II spy for Germany, who could have doomed the D-day invasion had the German high command not stubbornly refused to believe his information; of kidney disease; in Munich. An Albanian national, Bazna served as valet to the British ambassador in Ankara, which enabled him to photocopy secret papers, including telegrams between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and detailed plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Germans paid him more than $1,000,000 for the information-all in counterfeit sterling notes they were circulating in hopes of undermining...
...amid formal, terraced gardens, the villa resembles a rambling medieval manor house. But the routine within is briskly efficient. Pope Paul VI rises at 6:30 a.m., bathes, is shaved by his valet and says an early Mass. At breakfast (caffè latte, rolls, fruit), the conversation revolves around the morning news while the Pope glances at newspapers: Le Monde, La Stampa, and Corriere della Sera. At 8:30, in the garden under a centuries-old oak tree, Paul receives a worldwide news briefing that often focuses on church matters: excerpts from a German paper's comments on Vatican...
Before dawn the next morning, Nixon impulsively wakened his valet and set off with a clutch of Secret Service men for the Lincoln Memorial, where he talked for an hour with a group of drowsy but astonished demonstrators. His discussion rambled over the sights of the world that he had seen ?Mexico City, the Moscow ballet, the cities of India. When the conversation turned to the war, Nixon told the students: "I know you think we are a bunch of so and so's." He said to them, the President recalled later, that "in 1939 I thought Neville Chamberlain...
...hero to his valet, no woman-not even one of the most elegant First Ladies in American history-is a heroine to her secretary. This month, as Jacqueline Kennedy turns 40, her public face has acquired a few wrinkles from a sensational book by Mary Barelli Gallagher, Jackie's former personal secretary...
...plot of the scandal is triangular, and the third party was handsome, mus cular Stevan ("the Bull") Markovic, a 31-year-old Serb who worked for Alain as a combination valet, bodyguard and friend. When Delon and Nathalie sallied forth to Parisian boites and discotheques, surrounded by their band of hangers-on, Markovic was always at their side. Wherever Alain went, in fact, Stevan was sure to go. He lived with them in their plush town house at 22 Avenue de Messine, traveled with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick...