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Apparently tipped off that immigration charges against him had been secretly handed up by a federal grand jury in Portland, the Bhagwan departed forthwith from Rajneeshpuram. The guru and six disciples chartered two Learjets and took off so quickly that their pilots had to obtain final clearances while aloft. As the Bhagwan's retinue tried to arrange a flight to Bermuda, Federal Aviation Administration controllers tracked the planes. When Rajneesh's touched down at 2 a.m. at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, authorities arrested...
...smotheringly with Prince spaghetti. Lawyers for Prince, the singer, were grated. They sent a letter to Joseph Pellegrino, the Lowell, Mass., pasta company's president, complaining that the ad gave the impression that their client had endorsed Prince products. The lawyers asked the 73-year-old spaghetti maker to forthwith stop using the 26-year-old rock star's name in twain...
Naturally. Landing finally at her brother's place, she decides that the cure for his glum raffishness must be pets on whom he can practice a responsible form of loving. Forthwith, she goes out and buys a menagerie of ducks, a goat, an affably neurotic dog and a pair of miniature horses that trot, puzzled but agreeable, through the house. It is as she tells her psychiatrist: "I'm going to get my balance. Then I can go back to being obsessed with my family...
...Winthorpe will assert itself no matter what his circumstances, and that a fellow like Billy Ray Valentine will resort to criminality no matter how well the world treats him. Brother Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) holds the opposite, that people are shaped by the manner in which the world treats them. Forthwith, a bet is made. The Dukes arrange for Billy Ray to be mysteriously lifted up into Winthorpe's well-buttled town house, and to apply his street smarts to making money in pork-belly futures. Winthorpe is, at the same time, sent spinning down the tubes, with only...
...Israelis installed U.S.-made armored equipment in southern Lebanon. When Washington protested Jerusalem first refused to remove the equipment; later the Israelis claimed to have done so, but U.S. surveillance showed otherwise. An enraged Jimmy Carter informed Israel that if the weapons were not moved forthwith, he would ask Congress to halt all arms sales to Israel. Only then did Jerusalem bow to Washington's wishes...