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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last January, on the day before Donovan's Senate confirmation hearings began, an FBI agent called Fred Fielding, a transition-team lawyer who is now the White House counsel, to tell him about a recording that seemed to link Donovan with known organized-crime figures. Fielding, according to Webster, "didn't think it was necessary" to pursue the matter or to question Donovan about it. Fielding, who was an assistant to John Dean in the Nixon White House, told TIME: "It wasn't presented to me as a substantive charge. They had a bald allegation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finger Pointing | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

After attending college in Switzerland and at the University of Miami, the actor was ready to take New York by storm. Casting Director Rhonda Young, then a talent agent, tried to get work for the hulking Stallone. "I sent him to Ivory Soap," she says. "They were looking for a greaser, but they sent him back. They said there was a limit to seediness." When he worked as an usher in a moviehouse, he fell in love with another usher, Sasha Czack. They got married, and the bride typed scripts that Stallone wrote in off-hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Susanna Desborough is facing an embarrassing problem for a real estate agent. She is losing her own home in a foreclosure proceeding. Desborough has been unable to make the $825 monthly payments on the house in the Chatsworth section of Los Angeles, and now is more than $10,000 in arrears. Valley Federal Savings & Loan Association, which holds the mortgage, plans to sell the house next month. Says Desborough: "The situation became like a monster that kept growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Califoreclosure | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...executives were furious when they heard Butcher argue that Chase had no obligation because the bank had been merely a transfer agent between the brokerage houses and Drysdale. Their arrangement had been with Chase, the brokerage houses argued, not with Drys dale. Chase seemed to be breaking the most fundamental rule of Wall Street: a dealer stands behind his deal. Said one an gry brokerage house executive: "We had taken a negative view of Drysdale's opera tions from the start, and we never had any direct dealings with them at all. We did not know for whom Chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Panic That Wasn't | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...cosmos revolves around them, other characters occasionally appear in person or memory. There is Fenwick's twin brother Manfred, a more sinister CIA agent, recently drowned under suspicious circumstances. Manfred's son (by Susan's mother) is either in a Chilean prison or dead. Susan's twin sister Miriam pops up when the story needs her; she is still scarred from being raped by a motorcycle gang and tortured by the Shah's secret police in Iran. She and her current lover, a Vietnamese refugee, have an infant son named Edgar Allan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conceits | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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