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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money for Henry these days. Last week it was disclosed that he had made a five-year deal with NBC to serve as a special consultant and commentator on world affairs for a sum that-according to some reports-might top $3 million. A week earlier Kissinger signed a contract with Little, Brown for his memoirs-the first of several U.S. and foreign deals that are likely to bring him several million dollars more...
...deemed questionable. The KGB offered to help, promising that he would be safe if she performed some favors at the embassy. Haavik never saw her lover again, but she became ensnared in the KGB system. By 1949, when Norway entered NATO, she was ready with a signed spy contract...
Besides defaulted debtors, the Credit Society has many other discontented citizens: people who cannot understand the terms of a time-payment contract; buyers infuriated by billing errors; consumers, especially women, who believe they have been denied credit for capricious reasons. Ironically, by making credit seem essential to comfortable living, lenders have sharpened the grievances of all these groups enough to make them a potent political force. Responding to their gripes, Congress in the past nine years has enacted five laws to strengthen the hand of debtors in dealing with creditors, and it will consider some tough new legislation this session...
Though Flynt is hopeful about having his conviction reversed on appeal, he may be spending time in still other courtrooms. He faces obscenity charges in Cleveland; indictments for sodomy, bribery and disseminating material harmful to juveniles in Cincinnati; and a $10 million breach-of-contract suit from Hustler's former national newsstand distributor. Meanwhile, representatives of the Indianapolis vice squad were at the Cincinnati trial gathering inspiration for their own possible obscenity case against Flynt...
...councils of the steel industry. It means that the federation's biggest union has been kept out of the hands of a rebel, Sadlowski, who has sharply denounced George Meany's leadership. It also means that the Steelworkers will begin bargaining this week for a new contract with mills still bound by a no-strike agreement that McBride backed and Sadlowski opposed...