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...Mitchell, chief of staff of the House Agriculture Committee, notes that most wheat acreage in the drought-affected areas is insured--specifically, 91% in Colorado, 86% in Kansas, 85% in Oklahoma and 79% in Texas. Fears of widespread farm defaults and bankruptcies have not yet materialized. Larry Cervenka, a banker in Taylor, believes "96% to 97%" of local farmers will stay afloat, at least in the immediate future, because they raise both crops and cattle. But the fears and anxieties run high. "I wish," Cervenka adds, "Americans could know the full impact of this, of what it has done...
...Ross Perot mellowing with age, like most people do? No, sir. In an interview with TIME in his museum-like office last week, he lambasted House Republicans for playing a "shell game" with the Contract with America, blamed "idiots" in the Senate for scaring investment banker Felix Rohatyn away from the Federal Reserve Board and slammed lawmakers generally for playacting rather than attending to the nation's woes. "The strutting, the pouting. Congressmen standing on the steps of the Capitol, demonstrating this, demonstrating that," Perot says. "This is great for the evening news, but it does nothing to solve...
...almost certainly fictional. Traill, who has studied Schliemann for nearly 20 years, first became skeptical of the archaeologist's veracity in 1978, when he found an eyewitness account Schliemann wrote about a San Francisco fire. Schliemann lived in California in the early 1850s, amassing a fortune as a banker during the gold rush (he also made millions as an indigo trader and a sometimes shady profiteer in Russia during the Crimean War). But the fire occurred while Schliemann was out of town, and a month earlier than the report said...
...Tucker's attorneys claiming prosecutors had removed one woman because of her race. Federal Judge George Howard Jr. agreed and reinstated the woman, making the jury nine whites and three blacks. After the jury was seated, Prosecutor Ray Jahn described a succession of illegal deals he said began when banker Mr. McDougal made the governor an offer "he couldn't refuse." The McDougals were partners with the Clintons in the Whitewater land development in Arkansas. Chief prosecution witness David Hale says Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Mrs. McDougal. Mr. McDougal denied that claim on Monday...
...build it from the bottom up with local programming--a national network of distinct and separate voices. It almost sounds like a koan: When is a network not a network? Of course, this is precisely the kind of counterintuitive thinking that has drawn Diller admirers and partners like investment banker Herbert Allen and Tele-Communications Inc.'s John Malone. In practical terms, however, Diller's plan would seem almost too counterintuitive, given the fact that Silver King stations currently produce almost none of their own programming. Thus Diller will presumably be forced to build up separate stables of talented programmers...