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...shaky state of consumer confidence in banking and sparked demands that all deposit-taking institutions be federally insured. Most of all, Maryland's crisis raised doubts about the overall health of the savings and loan industry, which is attempting to recover from a six-year slump. Said Willard Butcher, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank: "We have the potential for a very serious thrift crisis in this country...
...John Butcher...
Afterward, in a telephone conversation recorded by a neighbor and later printed in New York magazine, Goetz agitatedly explained how he felt at the time: "If you corner a rat and you are about to butcher it, O.K.? The way I responded was viciously and savagely, just like a rat." Notes Psychologist Morton Bard: "One could argue that Goetz was reliving the earlier incident when he pulled the trigger. The difference is that he acted out dreams of retaliation that most people resolve through fantasy." Goetz's subsequent explanation was more explicit: "I know in my heart...
...daytime exhibition games, Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers and John Butcher of the Minnesota Twins hurled impressively...
...accusations stem from loans granted to Butcher and the others by banks he controlled. They are charged with ille gally borrowing more than $7 million to finance an Alabama mining company in which Butcher owned a 75% interest. Butcher and his associate are also accused of using forgery and fictitious names to borrow $7.9 million for, among other things, a $400,000 yacht for Butcher. After his court appearance, the onetime Democratic candidate for Governor of Tennessee and organizer of the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair asserted, "I am innocent." If convicted, Butcher faces fines...