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...Ross Perot is a modest, if highly motivated man. The son of a cotton broker, he neither smokes nor drinks, drives a five-year-old car and buys his conservative suits off the rack. He met his wife Margot while he was an Annapolis midshipman, and they and their four children live in a relatively modest four-bedroom house in Dallas...
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Israel set up a dummy movie company in Britain, ostensibly to shoot a film about the New Zealand air force's role in World War II. The Israelis bought four Bristol Beaufighters and a Mosquito with the understanding that the planes would not leave the country. One morning the five planes, cleared to fly as far as Exeter to shoot some battle scenes, took off and kept right on going, later turning up in the Israeli air force. They also purchased three old B-17 bombers, ostensibly for a Honduran airline, then flew...
...raid, commandos slipped across the Gulf of Suez, made a 90-minute forced march to an Egyptian radar site near Ras Gharib and dismantled the seven-ton Soviet-made radar unit. Helicopters whisked the entire installation, housed in two huge vans, 17 miles into Israeli-held territory, along with four captured Egyptian technicians. The year-old P12 radar unit has a range of nearly 200 miles, controls both conventional antiaircraft fire and ground-to-air missiles, and is especially good at detecting low-flying planes. No other P12 has yet been seen in the West, and Israeli intelligence officers call...
Recognizing the pragmatic bent of Japan's increasingly affluent younger voters, even the tiny Communist Party -which went from four to 14 seats -downplayed dogma and emphasized inflation, air pollution and the need for more dobuita (gutter lids) in the streets. The Socialists, by comparison, trotted out unfamiliar, underfinanced candidates whose chief ideological equipment was a militant 19th century Marxism. Foreign policy? The Socialists demanded "unarmed neutrality" so loudly that voters identified the party with the antiwar students who tore up Tokyo last October. Domestic policy? The Socialists called for nationalization of industry -just as employers were handing...
...them are great-great-great-grandchildren of King Christian IX of Denmark, and four of them are his great-great-grandchildren as well. Every one could have called Kaiser Wilhelm or Czar Nicholas cousin, but more than one started life as miss or mister. Any good monarchist or earnest Anglophile could identify the lot as the youth and flower of Britain's royal family, assembled for a rare group photograph over the holidays at Windsor. From the left: James, Sarah, George, Helen, Charles, David, Andrew, Marina, Anne, Edward...