Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meese's account of his four-day inquiry into the Administration's arms-for- hostages deals with Iran last November added little to the bafflingly incomplete picture that he presented last fall. Smugly defending his effort, Meese proclaimed, "We were able to piece together a basic outline of what is now known as the Iran-contra story, which has been essentially validated during the extensive investigations which have occurred since...
...about the recommendations of some ecologists that the hunting of leopards and an international trade in leopard skins be resumed ((ENVIRONMENT, July 20)). The only large animal that is not on an endangered list, to judge by its numbers, is the human being. However, I would not on that account recommend that it be hunted...
Part of the reason is practical: a news organization that breaks a confidence may find it more difficult to get information in the future. "Often the only way to get that sort of account is to promise anonymity," says one upset Newsweek Washington correspondent. There is also a legal reason: judges may be more likely to force a news organization to reveal a source if in the past it has made such disclosures voluntarily. "If a judge knows that a particular institution has been less than consistent, he could be influenced by that prior practice," says James Goodale...
...girl. Coghlan had claimed to the News of the World that Archer paid her $100 to have sex with her. The paper urged her to call Archer, who offered to pay her $3,000 for a trip out of the country to escape reporters. The tabloid then published an account of those conversations but never explicitly claimed that Archer had known Coghlan in the past. Archer denied any prior association with Coghlan, claiming that he had "foolishly" suggested the foreign trip because he feared her story would be politically damaging. Nonetheless, he resigned his Tory office, to which...
...behind those well-publicized items, a broader pattern of plundering PTL's treasury has emerged. According to the Falwell loyalists who are currently in charge at PTL, in the Bakkers' last 16 months in power, more than $2.4 million was paid out of a single confidential executive checking account handled by the Charlotte office of Laventhol & Horwath, PTL's auditors. Almost $1.4 million in compensation went to the Bakkers and top executives from the account during the first four months of 1987. Aide David Taggart received 1987 cash advances of $111,000 and bonuses of $225,000. Payments totaling...