Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flurry of post-Watergate books, Victor Lasky's It Didn't Start With Watergate has a unique record. Released last April, it justifiably drew blistering reviews, yet climbed to the bestseller lists and stayed there. (Dial Press has 115,000 copies in print and plans to publish 10,000 more.) The reason seems to be that Lasky tells readers something that quite a few of them want to hear: that abuse of presidential power did not start with Richard Nixon. No responsible authority, of course, ever claimed that it did. But, not content to refute a charge that...
Before the magistrate, Lal dismissed the embezzlement charge against him as "just politics" and accused enemies of hatching "a plan to kill me." For its part, an embarrassed Congress Party-which last April expelled Lal for "undemocratic, autocratic and undignified attitudes" during the emergency-leveled undetailed charges of politically motivated torture against the government of Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Throughout the probes, the government has denied allegations of political vendetta...
...April 29,13 days after Lance's visit to Manufacturers Hanover Trust, NBG deposited $250,000 there. The amount in this interest-free account reached a high of $1.1 million in 1976-a sum conceded to be "somewhat excessive" by one of the Georgia bank's officials in a letter to the comptroller. Yet NBG officials also noted that their bank's earlier correspondent relationship with New York's Citibank had been unsatisfactory. According to one memo, "Manufacturers Hanover was much more responsive to the needs of Southern correspondents...
...confirmation that his Calhoun bank winked at massive overdrafts by the bank's officers and their relatives. According to the report, Lance's wife LaBelle overdrew her account by as much as $110,000 in the last four months of 1974. Between September 1974 and April 1975, nine Lance relatives amassed overdrafts totaling an impressive $450,000. In December 1975, federal bank examiners insisted that the overdrafts be stopped...
...Earth. The mission there is a look at the satellite Titan, where scientists hope to find organic molecules similar to those on Earth. Voyager 2 could be sent on to Uranus, 20 times farther from the sun than Earth, and possessor of a newly discovered system of rings (TIME, April 11); it would not reach Uranus until January 1986. Eventually the Voyagers would pass beyond the solar system...