Their great fortune derives from the fact that their conflict is with Israeli Jews, whose role in Western civilization loomed, and continues to loom, so large.

Their fortune derives from SHV Holdings, a Utrecht-based energy and wholesale consumer goods behemoth with 1988 assets of $3.6 billion.

Mr. Salinas is imprisoned in Mexico City on charges of financial wrongdoing and masterminding a rival's murder; he has repeatedly denied that his fortune derived in any way from the narcotics trade.

Galatea was a big, powerfully-built brown mare bred in France by her owner Robert Sterling Clark, an American industrialist whose fortune derived from the Singer Sewing Machine company.

Overgrown and semiderelict, the house was sold at auction in 1979 to Barry Trupin, whose fortune derived from truck leasing, for a reported price of $330,000.

The Roussel family's fortunes derive from the Roussel Uclaf pharmaceutical corporation, most famous for the design of the abortifacient RU-486 (mifepristone).

The Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art are led, respectively, by Leonard and Ronald O. Lauder, whose fortunes derive from Estee Lauder Companies.

Hotung, whose fortune derives from international property and finance, comes from one of Hong Kong's leading families.

His fortune derived from his successful practice in chancery and other London courts.

His fortune derived from his two plantations in Suriname where he was born and where his father was in a high position within the Court of Justice.