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...number of Government-repossessed houses has risen from a few hundred in the late '60s to 3,300 at present, foreclosures occur seven times more frequently on FHA-insured mortgages than on conventional mortgages. Upset by the Tribune's revelations, Mayor Richard Daley persuaded the FHA to cancel an auction of 700 foreclosed houses scheduled for last month while a federal-city task force inspects them to determine their fitness for habitation. The local U.S. Attorney is investigating allegations against six mortgage lenders for mortgage-insurance fraud...
...here," Peach recalls of some extremists. "I crushed the bastards." Nonetheless, Peach sees little ground for "common interest" in a factory that always seems to be divided into "them" and "us." "Management should understand that it is like the Yanks and Russia," he says. "You have enough strength to cancel each other out. If the unions were not as powerful, the clock would go back because I don't think that breed ever alters. We just don't work as partners. When they want something, they talk about common interest. But whenever we've needed anything...
Lockheed went further. It stated that identifying its beneficiaries could hurt its $1.6 billion backlog of unfilled foreign orders, presumably by causing embarrassed foreign governments to cancel contracts, and also damage prospects for future sales. Nor would Lockheed promise to make no more political payments. Such payments, it said, are a normal and necessary feature of doing business in certain parts of the world, are essential to sales and "are consistent with practices engaged in by numerous other companies abroad...
Israeli Ambassador to Washington Simcha Dinitz flew down to the Virgin Islands last week, but not for the sunshine and sea breezes of Cancel Bay. Dinitz instead spent two days conferring secretly with vacationing Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about the status of Israeli-Egyptian negotiations over further disengagement in the Sinai. Dinitz capped those talks with follow-up meetings at the State Department, then flew home to Israel to attend a crucial weekend meeting of Premier Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet. As if to underscore the urgency of his mission, shortly after his return a terrorist bomb went...
...protestors have attempted to cancel Moynihan's appearance since its announcement in April, citing what they called his racist position regarding the welfare of blacks that he assumed as a domestic adviser to former President Richard M. Nixon...