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...borrowed $800, the client then deposits it in an S and L account, which is exempt from seizure. After being discharged of his debts by the court, the freshly minted bankrupt withdraws his $800, pays off the loan and thus keeps his car-entirely legally. Using such techniques, one Californian was able to retain as much as $30,000 in cash and property, while having all his debts permanently wiped...
Looking ahead, Ford's campaign advisers discern the biggest threat from the right. Reagan is traveling around the country and obliquely criticizing the President for his budget deficit, his compromises with Congress on spending and his fairly liberal Cabinet appointments. The conservative Californian has logged approximately 65,000 miles in visits to 30 states. He is also given wide exposure by a twice-weekly column carried by 195 newspapers and a radio broadcast every weekday over 274 stations. Among nine candidates in the latest Gallup poll, Reagan got 22% of the Republican vote, v. Ford...
...impact on G.O.P. stalwarts throughout the country. "I don't see how he can change the habits of 30 years," says Robert J. Huber, an industrialist and former state senator from Michigan. Indeed, Rockefeller recently alienated West Coast conservatives by naming to his staff John Veneman, a liberal Californian who once served as Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Notes a Reagan aide: "The symbolism of the Veneman appointment goes against the grain of any Rockefeller rapprochement with the right...
...Columbia University, was eating breakfast in the Royal Tehran Hilton recently when a familiar figure walked by. McGill and his friend, the president of a California university, looked at each other and grinned. "What are you doing here?" asked McGill. "When did you start working this territory?" replied the Californian...
Although the University of California does not yet even have any contracts with Iran, the Daily Californian, the student paper, protested: "That the University of California would even consider dealing with such an oppressive, totalitarian regime is an affront to the ideals of a free university." U.C. Vice President Durward Long disagrees. Says he: "We consider assisting developing nations to improve their educational capacities in the interest of their people...