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Many New Yorkers saw the shooting victims as symbols of the subway crime that has terrorized innumerable city residents and the gunman as a real-life counterpart of the vigilante hero portrayed by Charles Bronson in the 1974 movie Death Wish. But it was the vigilante who had committed one of the most violent subway crimes in years. Police distributed thousands of flyers bearing a sketch of the gunman, whose likely age they put at 25 to 30, and at week's end claimed to have received some leads from citizens who did not think him worthy of praise. Said...
While FDIC officials were shuttering the failed Kansas bank, regulators from the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the thrift-industry counterpart to the FDIC, were in California to liquidate the San Marino Savings and Loan Association, whose failure the previous week threatened to cost the FSLIC $193 million, a record loss. So far this year, nine S and Ls have failed, and an additional 17 have been merged with stronger competitors. FDIC Chairman William M. Isaac, who has told the White House that he would like to leave office early next year, warns that if interest rates head back...
...chief U.S. negotiator at the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) talks in Geneva, Nitze and his Russian counterpart worked out the now famous "walk in the woods" formula for severe restrictions on the deployment of both U.S. and Soviet nuclear missiles in Europe. It was rejected by both Washington and Moscow, and since the Soviets broke off the INF talks a year ago, Nitze has occupied a fifth-floor office at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), retaining the title of INF negotiator but left with nothing much...
...agree to a slowdown in the deployment of cruise missiles or a moratorium on testing antisatellite devices. The hard-liners in Washington, unwilling to forgo the U.S. buildup in either area, would merely suggest that the Soviets send monitors to watch U.S. underground nuclear tests and that an American counterpart go to the U.S.S.R...
...just threw herself everywhere," an admiring Kimmel said of her counterpart. Kimmel said of her counterpart. Kimmel, in only her second start ever, played valiantly in a losing cause. "Tracy made a few really key saves, especially at the end," said Carney...