Word: chats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What might have remained a more or less standard influence-peddling inquiry became more titillating last month when Judge Aldrich made public her role in the investigation. Remembering her Christmas-party chat, she decided to check out Nephew Gino with one of the Climaco partners, Shimon Kaplan. According to Aldrich, Kaplan told her that young Battisti had received $41,000 in bonuses, roughly 10% of all fees from cases "attributable" to his uncle. Stunned by Aldrich's assertion, Kaplan and the Climaco firm formally denied making any deals with Judge Battisti or his nephew...
...results of the austerity program show up everywhere. Mexico City's shops are bursting with goods, but there are few customers; bored clerks chat idle hours away. Auto showrooms are deserted, and understandably so: a Volkswagen Rabbit sells for 800,000 pesos, more than double the 360,000 of last summer. Ford, GM and Chrysler have stopped including fancy U.S.-made electronics in their Mexican-built cars to get around import restrictions...
...host at a Western economic summit meeting,* and for months, the President has been planning to make the three-day occasion memorably different from its eight predecessors. Above all, Reagan hopes to give the heads of government of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada a chance to chat in a relaxed, informal and authentically all-American style over the Memorial Day weekend. His choice of venue, the restored confines of colonial Williamsburg, seems perfect...
Moreover, if Derek Bok's image among students is aloof (if not among alumni), Giamatti seems exceptionally accessible to students. No other Ivy League president has office hours for students to come in and chat, and few--other than Giamatti--respond to student-written luncheon invitations...
Hanoi's frustrations sometimes flare into violence. Late last month, Vietnamese troops began their annual offensive in Kampuchea to flush out the estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians...