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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week the pressures will mount further when Congress returns from its recess and two committees convene almost immediately for hearings related to the Lance affair. Also due this week are the final segments of the Comptroller of the Currency's report-the document that did much to bring the heat on Lance to a boil. To reduce the heat, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared that Lance had done nothing to deserve being "run out of Government...
...Lance Affair Carter's biggest immediate problem remained the continuing criticism of Budget Director Bert Lance in the wake of the mixed review that Lance received from U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann (TIME, Aug. 29). By his ringing endorsement of Lance ("Bert, I'm proud of you") Carter clearly opened himself to the charge that he was reneging on his pledge to avoid even the appearance of impropriety among his appointees. "There's no doubt that the President has used up some credit," said one White House staffer last week. "He told the people...
...Taiwan province is China's sacred territory. We are determined to liberate Taiwan. When and how is entirely China's internal affair...
...whole affair seems an extreme case of office politics. "There were always rival factions within [Southwestern] Bell " says one insider. "When Angus Alston the chairman of the board, was dying of cancer in 1974, a new group came into power and wanted to get rid of their enemies, Gravitt and Ashley." Pat Maloney the flamboyant lawyer for Gravitt's widow, pointed to a Bell organization chart in the San Antonio courtroom; he accused Gravitt's successor, Chester L. Todd, of instigating the investigation that led to the executive's death only to get his job Asked Maloney...
DIED. Sebastian Cabot, 59, portly, bearded British actor best known for his role as French, the butler-nanny on TV's A Family Affair; of a stroke; in Victoria, B.C. Amiable and urbane, Cabot once said: "I like to think of myself as a rather dashing figure, like Falstaff...