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...addition to these acts, Carlos is believed to have had a part in the bombing of the Drugstore in Paris and an attack on the French embassy in The Hague, both in September 1974, and the attempted murders of a prominent Jewish merchant in London and a Yugoslav diplomat in Lyon. From various papers found in Carlos' hideouts, police discovered other as yet unhatched plots: a scheme to block the Suez Canal by dynamiting a ship, the kidnap or murder of the Israeli Ambassador to France and the possible assassination of Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Sheik Ahmed...
Many of these strenuous activities were filmed for a TV spectacular that was designed to show the health and vigor of Josip Broz Tito, 83. The demonstration was convincing, up to a point. There are no more rumors in Belgrade these days that the Yugoslav President is suffering from some deadly disease. Gone also are the whispers that he is no longer fully in charge of the multinational Communist country he forged in 1945 and holds together by the force of his personal prestige. Still, awareness of Tito's mortality was heightened in Belgrade by Francisco Franco...
...leftist military regime, Peru has been seeking a "humanistic and Christian socialism," but it is not inhospitable to foreign investment. Under Plan Inca, the old semifeudal landholding system has been broken up, and a cloudy kind of mixed ownership, blended from 19th century European syndicalism, the modern Yugoslav cooperatives and perhaps some Andean mysticism, has been introduced. "We do not believe," adds General Morales, "that we are the only owners of truth...
Cornforth, an Australian-born researcher now at the University of Sussex, and Yugoslav-born Prelog, of Zurich's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, helped define the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules. Cornforth, who has been deaf since boyhood, concentrated on enzymes-the catalysts for chemical reactions in living things-while Prelog studied other organic molecules, including antibiotics...
...supported only modest wage increases for workers--all this as part of its overall strategy of gaining support from small landowners, shopkeepers and office employees in a united front against the monopoly capitalists and big landowners who ran Salazarist Portugal. More pro-Soviet than their Italian, Spanish or Yugoslav comrades, the Portugese Communists are also less sympathetic to revolutionary action...