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...smugglers spend heavily for good equipment, whereas "Customs," as one of them puts it, "have to go to Congress just to get an airplane." Indeed, the Feds' best material comes from what they have confiscated from smugglers. Three of Customs' aging Florida fleet of eight planes are trophies of pot busts...
...short-range fighter-bombers-its first warplanes from the U.S.-at a cost of $400 million; Saudi Arabia will be allowed to buy 60 of one of the world's most sophisticated fighters, the F-15, at a cost of $2.5 billion, to replace its aging fleet of British Lightning jets; and Israel will be permitted to buy 15 F-15s (in addition to 25 currently being delivered), as well as 75 of the smaller but still very advanced F-16 (total cost: $1.9 billion...
...Fleet feet: Bob Fosse, who directed and choreographed Pippin, is also the man behind Dancin'. The new show opening at the Colonial Theatre plays Monday through Saturday at 8, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2. Consider kicking up your heels...
...headline in the Observer, which spurred competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story involved a Saudi Arabian princess called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken by a British tourist with an Instamatic concealed in a pack of cigarettes...
...some reports, however, Princess Mashall's sentence was "commuted" to shooting, perhaps because she was the granddaughter of Prince Mohammed, King Khalid's eldest brother (a notoriously ill-tempered man whose nickname is Abu Sharein, Father of the Double Evil). Although the princess's fate received the full Fleet Street treatment, other similar incidents in Saudi Arabia have passed virtually unnoticed. Last year, for example, another princely brother of King Khalid reportedly drowned one of his daughters in a swimming pool when he learned that she had been to bed with a man before her marriage...