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...prospered. Li named a son to be deputy director of the local industry and commerce bureau. Li's son-in-law became deputy secretary of the Communist Youth League, and his daughter rose from typist to police-department junior official. But when more than a dozen cousins and other clan members also gained influential posts, outraged city leaders acted. They sacked Li last month, suspended his party membership, and warned all local party members to take heed of his example...
...filled briefcases to politicians who would do his bidding and keeping a careful watch on the progress of his sons. "The old man even had a maid in Jack's Washington house who reported to him," O'Neill says. President Kennedy is portrayed as the kindliest member of that clan, willing to meet with a friend of O'Neill's who wanted to bid on a large construction job overseas even though the man had not been an early Kennedy supporter. But Robert Kennedy is depicted as ungracious and ruthless. "To me, he was a self- important upstart...
...free-lance miners hit pay dirt, they split the booty with other clan members, since holding out on one's fellows is a capital offense. Then the stones are usually sold to middlemen at the river's edge or in nearby towns and eventually wind up in the hands of smugglers. Every guaquero's dream is to find a large "drop of oil" stone -- one of great purity that could fetch thousands of dollars. Most of the treasure hunters, however, spend their days in extreme poverty, squandering what little they earn on liquor...
Dionne, who considers Whitney the "little girl I never had," says of the clan, "You don't get in unless we let you in." Whitney was always reluctant to let outsiders in. "I've always been a private person," she says. "In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. When I decided...
...interpreter at the Iranian embassy. French authorities, who believe he is actually a high-ranking Iranian intelligence official, recently tried to question him about a rash of / terrorist bombings in Paris last fall. At the time, the French assumed the attacks were the work of a Lebanese clan seeking the freedom of a jailed terrorist. Now it appears they suspect the Iranians...