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Lance Morrow's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" [ESSAY, Nov. 18] recalled to my mind a question posed by a postmaster in Massachusetts when I addressed a package to my daughter in Maryland: "Chevy Chase? A town has already been named after him?" Dorothy Lundberg Washington...
Banks ordinarily would have been reluctant to extend more money to the debtors. But the Government's support made such big-city institutions as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan more willing to take the chance. Indeed, U.S. banks generally grew healthier in 1985 as they emerged from a two-year crisis of confidence among investors and depositors. Some other U.S. banks, though, had a tumultuous year. More than 115 failed during 1985, the highest number since the Great Depression. Most were small ones buried under a pile of failed farm loans...
...billion Amount J.P. Morgan Chase will pay Enron investors who accused the bank of abetting the energy firm's accounting misdeeds...
...RAINBOW WARRIOR STEAMED ACROSS THE BERING STRAIT TO THE SIBERIAN WHALING VILLAGE OF LORINO. Six Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six ... Minutes later two Soviet ships appeared and gave chase [and captured the seventh member, who was escaping in a rubber dinghy] ... Only after the Rainbow Warrior was well into international waters did the Soviet ships turn back ... At week's end, Moscow released the protesters...
...public memory, Watergate is generally summed up like this: the Post and its inseparable reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought down President Richard Nixon by unraveling the Administration's cover-up of political espionage in a thrilling journalistic chase led by the spectral figure known as Deep Throat. But if the secret of his identity, held fast by four men for 33 years, is no more, there is still mystery in the nature and meaning of his role in Watergate. Was Deep Throat a villain or a hero, driven by base motives or noble ones...