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...night in the Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Shreveport, La. To dramatize his appeal to the poor, Jackson has taken to sleeping some nights in their homes rather than in hotels. Last Monday he stayed with William Jarrard, an unemployed white Baltimorean who bears an ironic resemblance to Archie Bunker; Wednesday in the San Antonio home of Hortencia Cabrera, mother of 14. To call attention to industrial pollution, Jackson on Wednesday also visited the West Dallas housing project apartment of Sarah Dean, whose five-year-old daughter Africia suffers from lead poisoning believed to be caused by a nearby smelter...
Ironically, the monument does not stand at the site of his burial (which was somewhere on "Burial Hill"), the site of his house is uncertain, since it was burned during the Battle of Bunker Hill, and only two copies of his signature exist. No portrait of him has ever come to light, and it is unlikely his father being an illiterate butcher, that a family portrait was ever done...
...Congressman George Hansen was found guilty by a Washington jury last week of "willfully" failing to include four financial transactions on disclosure forms required of federal officials and legislators. Most of them involved loans to himself or his wife, including $61,503 from Texas Oilman and Silver Speculator Nelson Bunker Hunt. While awaiting sentencing and his appeal of the verdict, he will be investigated by the House Ethics Committee, which could recommend that he be censured or expelled from the House. Meese has admitted that he failed to include a loan to his wife and a related stock purchase...
...Meese friend who wants to retire in time to help Reagan campaign for reelection. The Justice Department was prosecuting Republican Congressman George Hansen of Idaho for failing to include loans to his wife on the disclosure forms required of members of Congress. The Hansen loans from Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt were larger than Meese's (the largest was $62,000), and Hansen refuses to file amended forms. Meese has readily done so, but that might not be enough to save him. With Hansen on trial last week, Smith would have been criticized if he had not ordered...
...lawyer," says a woman from East Boston. "You've got to wait for an appointment and by the time you get one it's probably too late. They just don't have the time" Staff lawyers, on the other hand, feel as if they are working in a "sustained bunker atmosphere." For while the demand for their services increases daily, so does the general feeling of uncertainty concerning the program's future. As Wagan says, "The morale problems come from the sense that there is less security in Legal Services...