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There has not been a municipal audit since 1985, but estimates of current debt run as high as $40 million. The city's mercurial third-term mayor, Carl Officer, 37, has gone so far as to propose selling city hall and six fire stations to raise cash, assuming anybody would buy them. City employees routinely get paid a month or more late...
Amid all the week's eruptions, Gorbachev continued to dominate. In a 95- minute policy speech, he offered help for low-income Soviets, ordered an audit of all the benefits and privileges enjoyed by the ruling elite, and called for cuts in capital construction and the space program. He promised to reduce next year's defense budget 14% and disclosed that Moscow spent considerably more on the military than many of the Deputies suspected: about $130 billion a year, or some 9% of the Soviet Union's gross national product. Western leaders had long sought such an admission, but analysts...
...audit, the California franchise tax board denied the deductions and ordered Agnew to pay an additional $24,197 in state taxes and interest. In an appeal last week, Agnew argued that the $24,197 should be returned to him as a tax refund on his restitution. Conway Collis, a member of the state board of equalization, pronounced Agnew's claim "unbelievable" and said he found it "very hard to be sympathetic" to the former Vice President. If the tax board granted him the refund, said Collis, "we are in effect asking other California taxpayers to subsidize Mr. Agnew's wrongdoing...
...West German Finance Ministry did not even begin an audit of Imhausen until the U.S. stepped up its pressure on Bonn around Christmas. The delay occurred, says Ost, because "some things have to be pursued in a discreet manner." Discretion, however, quickly gave way to finger pointing. Press reports obviously based on leaks from U.S. officials began appearing on New Year's Day. The next day, through a spokesman, Bonn issued the first of several denials, claiming that "we have no evidence so far that German firms or persons have been involved" in the Libyan project...
...asked for a data audit," he said last week."I insisted on it. I wrote to Dr. Spengler sayingthat whatever went into open literature should beverified and accounted for." Garsd said Spenglerdid not respond to any of the memos that he wrote...