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...case soon began to look like one calling for the quirky talents of Simenon's Inspector Maigret. A month after the theft, Marcel Dassault, 84, unaccountably withdrew his formal complaint against De Vathaire. Dassault, who is famous for having developed his company's Mirage fighter planes, later appeared on French television with a somewhat unconvincing explanation of his action. He declared that "since there was no chance of recovering the money, and to please his parents, I dropped charges against my employee of 24 years' standing." Would he go so far as to rehire De Vathaire...
...public preferred to consider their esteemed merchant prince innocent, at least until proved guilty. Last week, however, the prince was forced to resign from virtually all his public and official posts after a government commission severely chastized him for "extremely imprudent" dealings with Lockheed. The prince, who served as Inspector General of the Dutch armed forces, will keep his ermine, but he has lost his epaulets. The stunned nation has lost something more-its cherished trust in royal rectitude...
After reading the 240-page report, which is already selling by the thousands in Dutch bookstores at $5.60 a copy, the prince admitted that his friendship with top Lockheed officials had developed "along wrong lines." Said he: "I sincerely regret this." In addition to giving up his post as Inspector General, he may have to abandon some 300 other official roles, which range from chairman of the World Wildlife Fund to adviser for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. In a televised speech to a tense and packed meeting of Parliament, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl said that no legal action would...
...task of the police in 1976 is almost impossible," says Inspector General Shaul Rosolio, 53, a lifelong cop with the build of an ironworker who heads Israel's 17,000-officer national police force. Rosolio toils in that meager patch of the possible, searching for more effective ways of beating back a rising tide of crime. Israel's growing cities now provide the anonymity so useful to criminals. Raging inflation has widened the gap between rich and poor, leaving some Israelis ready to steal their share of the new affluence. Worse, more and more citizens, long schooled...
...police are now involved in all societal diseases, and we are expected to find a magic cure," says Rosolio, who was visiting the U.S. to address a meeting of the National District Attorneys Association in Colorado on crime and terrorism. The inspector general has no magic up his sleeve, just innovative police methods to block what he calls "sophisticated, modern crime." Since taking over as chief of Israel's police force in 1972, Rosolio, a British-accented Sabra whose donnish manner masks a tough law enforcer, has added 5,000 men and women to the force. Though some gripe...