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...equipment, as well as plastic molding and precision machining plants, a foundry from a Danish firm, a metal-working plant, a power station, a water-treatment facility, a maintenance workshop and three warehouses. He had plenty of money to spend; one Rabta contract, he boasted to a friend, was worth nearly $2 billion...
...much of the past two months, Salman Rushdie has been defending himself and his book. "The thing that is most disturbing is that they are talking about a book that doesn't exist," he said. "The book that is worth killing people for and burning flags for is not the book I wrote." As Rushdie saw it, his book "isn't actually about Islam, but about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay." The sad irony, he said, is "that after working for five years to give voice and fictional flesh to the immigrant culture of which...
...take advantage of victims of circumstance. Perhaps the worst transgressor is the TV camera operator who zooms in on the face of a dead person's relative -- and stays there as the face dissolves in grief. Says Anne Seymour, public affairs director for the National Victim Center in Fort Worth: "Any time there is a yellow line, some journalists in the interest of news will cross over...
Arriving like an invasion force, foreign media magnates have taken over billions of dollars' worth of U.S. properties ranging from RCA Records to Scientific American magazine. So far, their intentions have appeared to be strictly business. But what if a foreign communications kingpin were secretly working for the KGB as part of a diabolical scheme to influence American public opinion? And what if this media mole were to get his claws on the most ^ powerful U.S. communications company? That is the provocative premise of Agent of Influence (Putnam; 416 pages), an intriguing merger mystery by David Aaron, author...
Baker's most surprising slip last week was not realizing that Reagan-era ethical laxity is Out and more rigid Bush-era ethics are In. Four days after a story broke that he owned shares (worth $7 million in 1981 and an undisclosed amount today) in Chemical Bank New York Corp., which has huge loans to Third World nations, he announced that he would sell them. As Reagan's Secretary of Treasury, a qualified blind trust (whose owner knows what assets it contains, though he has no say in when they are bought and sold) was deemed sufficient. But after...