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...time the Air Force plane touched down at Grenoble, the popular French ski resort was swarming with security forces and journalists. The Haitian entourage went to an 11th century Benedictine monastery that has been converted into a hotel. While they rested and sampled the hostelry's luxurious cuisine, the French government was reportedly trying to persuade several so far reluctant African countries to offer Duvalier sanctuary. For Baby Doc the good life continued--at least for the time being...
...Valley, ski resort to upscale downhillers, schussed past 50 last week, and as prelude to the birthday, dozens of showfolk showed up in Idaho for the second annual Sun Valley Celebrity Ski Invitational. The highlight of the event: a charity auction presided over by Paul Newman that raised an estimated $140,000 for the Scott Newman Foundation for drug rehabilitation, established by the actor following his son's 1978 overdose death. Setting some kind of record for psychiatric fees, Brooke Shields' mother Teri bid $12,000 for a one-hour "consultation" with TV's Dr. Ruth (Good Sex) Westheimer. Asked...
...City's reluctant Scrooge is Arnold Thomas, 32, who heads the local office of the Farmers Home Administration. He has the unpleasant duty, as the agent of the Federal Government's lender of last resort, to foreclose on farmers who cannot keep up their debt payments. After a two-year moratorium on foreclosures, Thomas is now sending out letters politely advising farmers on how to avoid default through loan reschedulings, reamortization, even voluntary liquidation. "It bothers me to foreclose," says Thomas. "If it didn't, you wouldn't be human. I try to leave my job at the office. Otherwise...
...going through an emergency, a very real one." So said Mexico's Finance Minister, Jesus Silva Herzog, as he emerged from a conference on the international debt crisis in London last week. Silva Herzog was not alone in that assessment. In the Caribbean resort town of Cancun, his boss, Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, was closeted for 13 hours with Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi to discuss the plummeting world oil prices that are squeezing their heavily indebted economies. The two issued a communique expressing their "profound concern" over conditions in the oil market, which, they said, created...
...York City's Village Voice. In each suit the plaintiff charged that he and several partners, including Mrs. Marcos, had purchased Lindenmere in 1981 through a Cura(pi202)FIX THIS!ao-based corporation called Ancor Holdings N.V., with plans to develop the property into a $19 million resort...