Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes difficult to tell where the tear ends and the mend begins. The duke, for instance, did visit Germany in 1937, where he took tea with Field Marshal Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal presence crashing through a mirror, trying to hide inside his own image...
Thank you, Alexander Haig. Don't go away. Like Winston Churchill, we may need you later...
...Beirut, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat was quoted by a leftist newspaper as comparing himself with the wartime Winston Churchill. "Why do you say that I will leave Beirut?" Arafat demanded. "What is this stupid propaganda? Did Winston Churchill leave London?" Arafat's bravado concealed the harsh truth of the P.L.O.'s predicament: there is no place it can go and survive in its present form. The P.L.O. leadership and many of its guerrillas may eventually be given sanctuary in one or more Arab countries, but none was willing to accept the P.L.O. as an organized military force...
Tosco, though, was not big enough to carry the Colony project by itself. Its net worth is only $259 million, and it was hoping that revenues from oil shale would be large enough to make its investment in time, money and faith pay off. Winston, of course, thinks that Exxon acted too hastily. Says he: "Tosco believes that the project would be found satisfactory if full engineering and other assessment work were completed...
...Good, 37, a Colorado land developer and owner of 8.8% of Tosco's outstanding shares, those stockholders last week were making plans to put their own directors on Tosco's board at the Tosco annual meeting, to be held this week; later they hope to remove Winston from office. Says Good: "Tosco is a company with tremendous assets that are being mismanaged...