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...what is intended to be the most thorough inquiry so far into Waldheim's wartime record. Yet the "trial" is taking place not in a court but in a TV studio outside London. The defendant will not be present, and the judges' verdict will have no legal standing. The bulk of the proceedings, moreover, are being kept secret until they are shown on television -- edited down to a 3 1/2-hour program that will air June 5 in the U.S. on HBO, as well as in Britain and nearly 30 other countries, but not Austria...
...Watch, founded last year under the auspices of Ralph Nader to critique University policy in a variety of areas, says Harvard's decision to give marketing rights to DuPont Chemicals is in opposition to its stated policies in favor of the free flow of scientific information. DuPont provided the bulk of the funding for the Med School's mouse project...
...truly fair and equitable solution to the Reagan deficits must derive the bulk of its revenues from the big gainers of the last eight years: wealthy citizens and corporations. Kuttner suggests, among other things, holding the top income tax rate at 38.5 percent, rather than allowing it to drop to 22 percent as prescribed by the new tax laws...
That is a long way from the $150 a week Griffin made as a Big Band crooner in the late '40s, when he recorded I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated...
...public. Then stock markets around the world crashed. Since the BP shares had been priced far above their postcollapse market value, it seemed certain that few investors would buy them. Enter the Kuwait Investment Office, the London-based agency of Kuwait's Finance Ministry that handles the bulk of the Arab country's overseas holdings. Beginning in early November, the Kuwaitis started to buy BP stock in large amounts and singlehandedly salvaged the offering...