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Amalrik has been in trouble with Soviet authorities ever since he was a student at Moscow University, when he was expelled for an "un-Marxist" study stressing foreign influences in early Russian history, and for taking the manuscript to the Danish embassy for forwarding to Danish scholars...
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. was founded in 1920 by Sosthenes Behn, who was born of Franco-Danish parents in the Virgin Islands and was educated in Corsica and Paris. With such a background, it is not difficult to see how Behn's buccaneering character developed. Starting out as a sugar broker, he got into telecommunications almost by accident. He and his brother Hernand bought a small, foundering telephone company in Puerto Rico. The brothers soon acquired another phone system in Cuba, moved on into Spain, and bought the international holdings of Western Electric...
Despite the benefit of a $580,000 annual allowance provided by the junta. Constantine has kept a deliberately low profile in Rome. The King, his pretty, temperamental Danish-born wife, Queen Anne-Marie, 26, and their three small children live in a modest but handsomely situated rented villa on the Via di Porta Latina. Queen Mother Frederika, 56, and Constantine's sister, Princess Irene, 31, live in a more secluded villa north of Rome. Except for occasional appearances at horse shows and the like, all avoid Rome's lively social scene...
Although revered by many Greeks as a living symbol of national unity, Constantine has no blood relations in the country. The royal family is descended from a Danish prince of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonder-burg-Glücksburg, who was installed by Russia, France and Britain on the throne in 1863, as King George I. Since Constantine's exile, there has been occasional speculation that he might eventually give up his Roman villa and join his wife's family in Denmark. But, says a friend, "if he moved into a palace in Copenhagen, it would look...
Glistrup disapproves not only of the way Danish taxes are collected but even more of the way they are spent. Denmark's $8.2 billion budget could be cut by at least one-fifth, he says, and 80% of the civil servants transferred to productive jobs "without harming the socially weak." He proposes closing all Danish embassies abroad, for example, since Denmark really has no independent foreign policy. The Danish army? Disband it, Glistrup advises. "We should replace the general staff and the Ministry of Defense with a Russian-language recording that says 'We surrender...