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...allow testimony from four women claiming that Spector--who in better days worked with the likes of the Beatles--threatened them with guns. The defense called the accusations completely untrue and said the women were just seeking publicity. Spector, who has pleaded not guilty, is free on $1 million bail. But there's little need to worry about him going on the lam: his hair doesn't fit through the door...
There are no hard-and-fast rules today about who is responsible for footing the bill, but usually the family of the felon pays for the getaway limo before the wedding, the cancellation announcements, the defense lawyer, the court rehearsal dinner and the bail bond. The groom pays for his boutonniere as well as the bride's electronic monitoring bracelet...
...Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca was best known for persuading Congress to put up $1.2 billion to bail out his ailing car company. My, how things have changed. Instead of begging for dollars, Iacocca has become a best-selling author, and Chrysler has racked up eight quarters of record profits. Last week Iacocca offered further proof of Chrysler's comeback by announcing a reorganization that will allow for greater flexibility and future expansion. The company will be split into four parts: autos, finance, technology and aerospace. An umbrella organization, headed by Iacocca, will oversee all operations and is expected...
...influence of the networkers already extends to the outside world--as Diane Worthington, on-line manager of the popular PARTI section of the Source, can testify. When Worthington was charged with involvement in a San Francisco LSD operation, arrested and held without bail, her electronic admirers sprang to her defense. Planning their strategy in nationwide PARTI conferences, they sent telegrams to the judge, and are now raising money for Worthington's legal defense. In Colorado Springs, David Hughes, alerting fellow networkers to a proposed zoning-code change that would have made it more difficult for them to work at home...
...embassy on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington to demonstrate their revulsion from apartheid. Every weekday for those eight months, some of the protesters have been arrested. Through last week, Washington police had detained nearly 3,000 antiapartheid demonstrators; in virtually all the cases, they were quickly freed after posting $50 bail, and none were prosecuted. Among those arrested since last November are 22 Congressmen, former First Daughter Amy Carter, two of the late Robert Kennedy's children, and Coretta King, the widow of Martin Luther King...