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Nothing in the indictment refers to Lance's most celebrated loans: almost $7 million to the Carter family peanut business. Questions about those loans arose in previous investigations of Lance's finances by the Comptroller of the Currency and the SEC. A special counsel, Paul Curran, was appointed in March to conduct an independent investigation of the Carter family business loans and whether or not that money was improperly used in the Carter campaign...
...move on Capitol Hill angered the White House. After conferring with top Carter aides, Democratic National Committee Chairman John C. White charged that the coalition was dividing the party. Said he: "The continued activities of people like the five Congressmen are going to almost surely hand over the presidency on a silver platter to John Connally or Ronald Reagan...
...termed it, officials in Washington were confident that good relations were still possible with the government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. They also took heart from the fact that many of the anti-American demonstrators in Tehran last week carried placards that denounced the Soviet Union with a vitriol almost equal to that aimed...
...will prevent lacocca from making any significant product changes before 1982. So far his much promoted fiveyear, 50,000-mile protection plan has not done much to move Chrysler's top-heavy line of big cars out of the showrooms. Sales of the Omni and Horizon compacts have almost doubled since last year, but their production is limited because of a contract with Volkswagen, which makes the engine and produces only 300,000 a year...
...from the government. They also congregate in the streets, where their demonstrations for jobs have triggered violent reactions from the Orthodox Muslims and in particular the "komitehs," the local administrative and security arms of Ayatullah Khomeini. As one of the unemployed put it: "We have fights with komiteh members almost every night...