Word: businessman
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Brother Billy is not the only international businessman in the Carter family. TIME has learned that the President's youngest son Jeff, 27, has worked since 1978 as a computer consultant and that his clients, at least one of whom has agreed to pay a six-figure fee, included the World Bank and the authoritarian government of the Philippines...
Florida prosecutors made Charles Veverka an offer he could not refuse: tell in court what he knew about the beating he and nine fellow Dade County police officers administered to black Businessman Arthur McDuffie, who later died, and his legal problems would be over. Veverka agreed, and the state granted him immunity. But last week a federal grand jury indicted Veverka on four counts of violating McDuffie's civil rights. It was the only indictment handed up so far by the jury. Said Veverka, who could face fines of $21,500 and up to 26 years in prison...
Jewish voters, who normally cast Democratic ballots, were particularly incensed at a member of the President's family getting so cozy with Libya, one of Israel's most vociferous Arab antagonists. Said Meyer Berger, a Pittsburgh businessman and leading Democratic fund raiser: "The Billy Carter connection is the killing blow. It finishes off President Carter with the Jewish vote all over the country. I'm sorry about that because he deserves better...
...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
...Dick Nixon the grocery clerk became Richard Nixon the politician, the gripes became political sore points. The beefy, "affable if sometimes bumptious" Don with the trademark ski-jump nose was a businessman of questionable ethics, apparently a family affliction. In the 1950s, he cashed in on his brother's vice-presidential status by opening Nixon's, a California fast-food chain that featured "Nixonburgers." When the chain developed a few weak links, Howard Hughes selflessly donated $205,000 to the cause, a loan that Don never repaid (a loan not unlike Colonel Khadaffi's contribution to Billy Carter's coffers...