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...jury demanded to see some of Marc Rich & Co.'s files. The firm refused, contending that a Swiss company need not honor a U.S. subpoena and that, in any case, the transactions among its divisions were made according to fair-market prices. Last fall Judge Sand issued a contempt citation against the company. He ordered a $50,000 fine for each day that it failed to release the documents, a penalty that could total $27.5 million by the time the grand jury disbands. In June, Marc Rich & Co. secretly sold its U.S. division to a group of the parent...
...Park Avenue apartment, and is believed to be working out of the Zug offices. Two weeks ago, Clarendon sent out notices telling its customers it would conduct business as usual during the freeze, but since then Judge Sand has prohibited those reassurances on pain of further contempt citations...
...more than 5%, dropping from 38% to 33% of the popular vote. What shook the political establishment even more was a wave of protest votes, estimated at 18% to 20% of the electorate, squandered on splinter parties or simply thrown away in blank or spoiled ballots. Such gestures of contempt for the major parties were taken as a public warning against politics-as-usual while the nation's worsening economic ills went unattended...
ACQUITTED. Rita M. Lavelle, 35, a former assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; of contempt of Congress for failing to testify in March about her management of the EPA hazardous-waste-cleanup fund on the ground that she was "emotionally and physically unable to attend," after less than two hours of deliberation by a federal jury; in Washington. Dismissed by President Reagan in February, Lavelle still faces possible perjury charges for earlier congressional testimony...
...knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing my self-respect in the process Once my fit of self-contempt subsided, I took steps to register as a sophomore...