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...license plate were the fingerprints of one of Soliah's sisters, Kathleen, and of a friend, James Kilgore. Kathleen Soliah is now being sought for general questioning. Authorities suspect that Kilgore was the man who hired a San Francisco mover on Sept. 21 to carry a wicker basket to a vacant lot 1½ blocks from the city's Ingleside police station. The mover became wary, looked into the basket and discovered a 14-in. pipe bomb wired to a clock. A similar bomb was found in the Harrises' apartment, leading the FBI to wonder whether they...
...settled down again as the 6,000 or so female-and 240 male-visitors attending the two-week International Women's Year Conference went home. As a parting gift to the women delegates of the U.N.-sponsored affair (TIME, July 7), the Mexican government passed out dolls in wicker baskets. Huffed Australia's delegate Elizabeth Reid: "It never crossed their minds to give them...
Leaky Table. Not everyone at the Times is entirely pleased that the paper elected to be so trustworthy. "As far as I'm concerned, when you've got that many people around a table, nothing is off the record," says Associate Editor Tom Wicker, who attended the lunch. "But I work here, so I accepted the decision." Says Hersh: "Things have a way of leaking-which is why it's ridiculous to make those agreements...
...bridge was nicely symbolic, too. It spanned a ravine that divided Pointe Noire into a city and a village. The city was where the seamen were, sitting in the wicker chairs and on the foam pads beside the Atlantic Palace Hotel's swimming pool, as obsequious white-coated waiters served them gin and tonics. All they needed were pith helmets and cigars to put the scene back 20 years, when paternal Europeans were prodding their adopted African children into the mummifying swathes of apron strings. But the apron strings have rotted in the heat and humidity. The people...
...Time to Die, Wicker...