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...Rhoodie, who has been accused of high living and free spending during his years as Pretoria's influence peddler, trying to gain some kind of immunity from prosecution? He is currently wanted in the Transvaal, Prime Minister Botha an nounced last week, on grounds of "fraud and possibly theft." Furthermore, if Van den Bergh was a former superspook, why did he clumsily allow the press to discover the details of the Paris meeting? If he and Van Zyl were acting in their government's behalf, why did South African officials seize their passports soon after they had returned...
...Minister Assadollah Mobasheri to repeal all laws that "contravene Islam." Henceforth, all trials must end "in a final, absolute decision in a single phase." The right of women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under the Shah, would be repealed. Corporal punishments, such as flogging for theft or drinking, would be reinstituted. Said a disappointed young female university graduate: "What they are proposing is to turn this wonderful victory into a new set of restrictions on our freedom that rivals the previous regime...
...memories for the names of former habitues of Roberts Lounge, a bar near the airport where known cargo thieves, airline cargo handlers and plainclothes cops mingled, drank and bet on horses. The bar changed hands two years ago, but its current customers buzzed with gossip about the huge theft. Both federal and local investigators promptly began tailing the most likely suspects. Their problem was not so much whodunit, but how to prove...
While all this was going on, a third suspect in the theft, Thomas DeSimone, 32, was reported missing by his wife. DeSimone has a record of cargo thefts and had just served time for a truck hijacking. The FBI believes he was murdered in a dispute among the thieves over distribution of the Lufthansa loot. New York police are not so sure he is dead. Also thought to be a victim of the gang's dissension was Steven Edwards, 31, an ex-convict whose bullet-riddled body was found in his New York apartment...
...Young Museum, for example, an electric "key system" to ensure that guards made their rounds was disconnected three years ago. In Chicago, the C−zannes had been kept for two months in a storage room along with brooms and stepladders while a gallery was being remodeled. The theft had probably taken place days before it was discovered...