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...shooting apparently started near a refugee camp between the city and the airport. By midmorning it had spread to other camps around Beirut and to various sections of the city itself. Nada Khaled Yashruti, 33, the widow of a former Al-Fatah leader, was fatally riddled with twelve bullets as she entered her home in the well-to-do district of Raouche. She had just come from trying to help negotiate a cease-fire with Lebanon's President Suleiman Franjieh. A Lebanese newsman was killed when soldiers raked the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a nearby area...
...this realization can in no way mitigate his fate: His actions still stand, he is still responsible. The film cuts sharply from this moment to the airport where his flag-draped coffin rides an escalator into a USAF jet as his widow and children watch tearfully. The camera moves slowly to the adjacent terminal. Descending there is a man whom, the audience recognized instantly: Santore's assistant from Washington. As Santore leaves in a coffin, his replacement is welcomed to Uruguay in a grisly replay of Santore's own arrival only a year before. The message is clear and irrefutable...
...bizarre charges became known only after Long's widow Florence, 60, filed a $3,250,000 suit charging the secretary with alienation of her husband's affections. Long had been having an affair with Miss Dunlop, according to the widow's suit, since before 1968, the year he lost his Senate seat amid charges of corrupt dealings with officials of the Teamsters Union. Mrs. Long also petitioned the court to determine the assets of his estate, claiming in an affidavit that Miss Dunlop, 46, and two other employees "have concealed or embezzled or otherwise unlawfully held" property...
...will, Long left $10 each to his widow and his daughter, Mrs. Ann Miller, 30. Mrs. Long also received the jointly owned property, including a Missouri farm, a home in Phoenix, Ariz., and a summer place in Wisconsin, but the bulk of Long's $770,000 estate went to his granddaughter, five-year-old Ann Elizabeth Miller; Miss Dunlop was named executrix. Under terms of the will, Miss Dunlop receives $7,500 annually...
...Paris, Picasso's lawyer announced that his widow and his son Paulo would respect a wish expressed by Picasso and donate the artist's valuable personal collection of great painters to the Louvre. Picasso jokingly referred to the collection, which includes 800 to 1,000 works by Corot, Courbet, Cézanne, Braque, Matisse and others, as "bric-a-brac," but Prime Minister Pierre Messmer quickly accepted the priceless gift on behalf of France...