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Scrapbook Can We Have the Reward? The U.S. government is still advertising for tips that would lead to the arrest of fugitive financier Marc Rich. At the website of the International Broadcasting...
...This month, as if to prove the "brazen" and "misleading" parts, Cona-son and Lyons have brought out a paperback edition of the book, on the first inside page of which appears a long list of reviewers' blurbs...
...federal grand jury on more than fifty counts of wire fraud, racketeering, trading with the enemy, and evading more than forty-eight million dollars in income taxes...
...CASE DETAILS: Tehran, Iran, November 4, 1979...
...In April, 1980, Marc David Rich conspired with the Iranian government to purchase over six million barrels of oil, in violation of the trade embargo imposed against Iran by the United States...
...is prepared to protect informants by relocating them...
...Admirable and useful" says the N^'w York Times about Conason and Lyons, according to Conason and Lyons...
...Reviewer Neil A. Lewis softened the blow a bit by acknowledging at the outset that Conason and Lyons had constructed an "admirable and useful catalog of the people who dislike, disdain, and even detest" the Clintons...
...Free trade has some hidden costs...
...Twenty-four hours later, Clinton was again questioned by reporters on exactly the same trivial subject, and he stayed robotically on message: Q: Are you really giving Socks away...
...On Message Whenever we hear grumbling about George W. Bush's verbal miscues, we like to recall the peculiar gifts of his predecessor...
...guarantees that all reports will be investigated and all information will be kept confidential...
...Or something like that...
...3] And I won't have as much space or as much help in managing them, [4] so I'm trying to figure out whether I can do it...
...He is usually accompanied by two body guards...
...Iranian militants invade the U.S...
...CLINTON: [1] Oh, I don't know...
...2] I did better with the Arabs—the Palestinians and the Israelis than I've done with Socks and Buddy...
...Lewis was otherwise merciless, however...
...What's more, according to a Reuters dispatch last week, Rich was planning a party for his friends with the theme "Night in Las Vegas" (apparently to celebrate a recent string of luck he enjoyed playing pardon lotto...
...As Lenin might also have said: "It's better to be on the winning team than the losing one...
...And no, we aren't really expecting a reward, though a little relocation would be nice, maybe to St...
...He speaks French, German, and English...
...On September 19, 1983, Rich was indicted by a U.S...
...It strikes us that Marc Rich will be getting a small part of what he deserves if, owing to the paparazzi, the fugitive now has to become a recluse...
...But the party, which was to be held at the Chesa Veglia restaurant in the tony Swiss ski resort of St...
...and British bombers have been going after, and on which the Chinese are feverishly working, is tied together by a rather impressive system of fiber-optic communication cables whose technology was first provided to China by U.S...
...Reliable," says THE WEEKLY STANDARD...
...If you have information concerning Rich, you should contact the nearest U.S...
...And whaddya know...
...Iraq's Fiber Wasn't it Lenin who once said: The capitalists will sell us the fiber-optic cables by which we can hang them...
...He has thinning black hair and brown eyes...
...Thousands of Iranians march through the streets, chanting, "Death to America...
...His last known address was Himmelrich 28, 63340 Barr, Zug, Switzerland...
...Rich has had a number of dealings with former president Bill Clinton and his former aides...
...One of these blurbs actually purports to be from Neil A. Lewis...
...Because I've had that cat a long time...
...But one American quickly becomes popular with the new government in Tehran...
...The payments were made fraudulently through American banks and the illegal use of American telecommunications facilities...
...will pay a reward for information that leads to the arrest of Marc David Rich...
...It would seem that the authors' minimal task, after having propounded such a striking theory" about a vast right-wing conspiracy "is to make it plausible," Lewis pointed out...
...We hear, for instance, that Mr...
...Reliable Bootlickers There's no particular reason for you to remember it, but last April the New York Times Book Review savaged something called The Hunting of the President by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, two of Bill and Hillary Clinton's most reliable journalistic bootlickers...
...Note how the president marshals his defenses, numerically annotated by The Scrapbook: Q: What about Socks...
...It reads as follows: DESCRIPTION: Born in Antwerp, Belgium, on December 18, 1934, Rich is a white male, 177 centimeters in height, weighing between 72 and 81 kilograms...
...Moritz, had to be canceled because of overwhelming media interest...
...Instead, Hunting is "tedious," "brazen," "astonishingly misleading," and quite a few other bad things...
...But "it would be hard to overstate this: They do not succeed...
...He must have tested poorly in the focus groups...
...At the website of the International Broadcasting Bureau (www.ibb.gov/ fugitiveslrichica.htm) you can find the wanted poster reproduced at right...
...Yes, it turns out that the improved system of Iraqi air defenses that U.S...
...If appropriate, the U.S...
...Moritz...
...corporations...
...Poor Socks...
...Rich was in Zug, Switzerland, at the time of the indictment but refused to surrender to U.S...
...Embassy...
...Rich has traveled extensively in recent years to Jamaica, Portugal, Britain, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Israel...
...With the election of new Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica, Serb assistance to Iraq has apparently stopped and cooperation with the West begun...
...5] You know, we took him in as a stray back in Arkansas, and [6] I hate to give him up, [7] although Betty and a lot of other people here in the White House really love him...
...THE SCRAPBOOK is prepared to tell the U.S...
...on the good news front, however, reports out of London following the airstrikes also indicate that American and British defense planners were given a good deal of intelligence assistance by Serbs who had worked on the Iraqi upgrades during Slobodan Milosevic's tenure as head of Yugoslavia...
...That's Clinton—never an unscripted moment...
...What's going to happen to Socks...
...government everything we know about Marc Rich's whereabouts...
...As quoted by Reuters, here's then-still-president William Jefferson Clinton on January 11, responding to questions from reporters about his intention to abandon Socks the cat...
...For the next fourteen months, they hold fifty-three Americans hostage...
...embassy or consulate...
...authorities for trial...
...He has citizenship in the U.S., Spain, and Israel...
Vol. 6 • March 2001 • No. 24
