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Dickerson further told Chambers that the President would soon phone his son and tell him to leave Panama City; within 15 min. of the call, Dickerson says, Chip was taken by the Secret Service by car to Plains, Ga., leaving his wife and son behind. She later substituted for him at a news conference with local reporters. Asked last week why Chip was whisked away so quickly, Treasury Spokesman Joseph Laitin first said that it was for reasons of safety. Then he conceded: "Perhaps saving the President from political embarrassment did have something to do with it." Chip could have...
Walesa is married, with six children; his youngest son was born only four weeks ago. Like the vast majority of workers, he is devoutly religious. One day he vanished from strike headquarters for a time, and when he reappeared, he was asked whether he thought a settlement of the strike was near. Replied Walesa: "I'm a practicing Roman Catholic. I've just been praying it will end tonight." At first uncomfortable with the adulation he was receiving, Walesa now exudes a puckish cockiness. In a lighthearted conversation with journalists he declared, "I am the leader...
More terrestrially, Chun spent an impoverished childhood as the son of an herbal medicine man. He finished in the top ten in his class at the national Military Academy, took special forces training in the U.S. and commanded a regiment of South Korea's White Horse Division during a year's stint in Viet Nam. Only last May he insisted: "I have no political ambitions." But his behind-the-scenes maneuvering indicated otherwise. "Chun's not the simple-minded soldier, as many abroad might think," a Western diplomat says...
...property and another 12,000 near by. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 Ibs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret, we would have been rich forever," says Osvaldo Ferreira, Genesio's son. Not likely under Brazilian law. Though virtually anyone is free to prospect with "rudimentary" equipment, mineral rights belong to the government, and landowners receive a small royalty fee. The main consolation for the Fer-reiras was that they staked claims on what turned out to be the richest part...
...property and another 12,000 nearby. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 lbs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret, we would have been rich forever," says Osvaldo Ferreira, Genésio's son. Not likely under Brazilian law. Though virtually anyone is free to prospect with "rudimentary" equipment, mineral rights belong to the government, and landowners receive a small royalty fee. The main consolation for the Ferreiras was that they staked claims on what turned out to be the richest part...