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...Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed by Anthony Sampson The Viking Press,$12.95,340 pages...
Starting with Nobel and such other "merchants of death" as Alfred Krupp, Andrew Carnegie and the duPont family,Arms Bazaar by Anthony Sampson, a British journalist, traces the rise of the international arms market. As any good front-page journalist does, Sampson pays sharp attention to detail and leaves the analysis to more sophisticated writers. He merely tries to trace the industry point-by-point, producing an account valuable for researchers and pleasure readers...
...buyer for Henri Bendel: "This year there are a jillion different looks for the leg." The re-emergence of the leg results partly from the new, bigger, fuller skirts and dresses that require attention be paid to the underpinnings. Says Fashion Editor Elsa Klensch of Harper's Bazaar: "No doubt of it, the leg has come back as the center of interest. For years we covered them up with pants. Now they're back, and they...
...economist Milton Friedman last fall was roundly condemned: Friedman was one of the architects of the junta's economic policy. The New York Times reported last week that that policy, of inviting foreign investment and imports at the expense of a domestically-controlled economy, has turned Chile into "a bazaar filled with foreign goods that are snapped up by the well-to-do while millions of workers and their families are living hand to mouth." In many cases, workers are not living "hand to mouth" at all, but starving outright. At least 13 per cent of the labor force...
...Koran and that they are enforced is not necessarily a deterrent. When a Jeddah merchant left a crate of gold unguarded on the airport tarmac for two weeks, a Somali airport employee found the temptation too much. He began filching gold bars and selling them in the bazaar. Police caught him in the act and he was sent back to Somalia-minus one hand...