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DIED. José Ber Gelbard, 60, wealthy Argentine aluminum and tire manufacturer who served as Economy Minister (May 1973 to October 1974) under President Juan Perón and his widow Isabel; of a heart attack; in Washington, B.C. To slow Argentina's 80%-a-year inflation, Gelbard decreed stringent wage and price controls. But his policies contributed to the country's near economic collapse, precipitating the 1976 coup that overthrew Isabel. Said Gelbard of Argentine business: "There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound...
...young killer-an d television-go on trial for murder On June 4 Elinor Haggart, 82, a Miami Beach widow, discovered two teen-agers burglarizing her home. It was a fatal incident: the intruders abruptly shot the old woman to death with a gun they had found in the house, grabbed $415 in cash and made their getaway in the victim's 1972 Buick. Four days later Ronald Zamora, 15, confessed to police that he had killed Mrs. Haggart, who also happened to be his next-door neighbor. This week Zamora is facing a Miami jury-his accomplice will...
...letters written to Schneider from her lover on the lam, Chabrol finally throws in some new twists. Steiger resurfaces out of nowhere, savoring the confrontation with his faithless wife as he relates how he foiled her best-laid plans to do him in. Watching the would-be widow get her just desserts restores a sense of justice to the film, but here the structure of the story shows its first signs of coming a cropper. Chabrol chooses to dwell on Steiger's triumph for several more scenes, losing himself in the indulgent exercise of drawing out the rites of vengeance...
Living well is the best revenge. But when you are the most famous widow in the world, it takes a lot of money. Not having fared particularly well by the estate of her first husband, Jacqueline Kennedy negotiated a $3 million reverse dowry when she married Aristotle Onassis in 1968. In exchange, Jackie, then 39, relinquished all future claims to the fabulous estate of the husband 23 years older than she. A troublesome stepdaughter changed all that. Christina Onassis had opposed the marriage in the first place, friends say, and called Jackie "an opportunist." By the time her father died...
White liberals and many blacks noted that it usually takes several weeks for a person to die from fasting, not a mere seven days. Insisted Biko's widow Ntsiki: "We just do not believe that a man like Steve would die of a hunger strike." In an attempt to answer the doubters, Kruger invited independent pathologists to join in an official autopsy, its results may not be released for several weeks...