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...worrisome enough for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, he faced the possibility last week of losing one of his key ministers as the result of a long-simmering financial scandal. After two years of investigation, Bonn Public Prosecutor Franzbruno Eulencamp announced that his office planned to indict Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff on charges of bribery and corruption. Also accused were former Economics Minister Hans Friderichs, now chairman of West Germany's second-ranking Dresdner Bank, and three other officials. Eulencamp asked the Bundestag to lift the immunity Lambsdorff enjoys as a member of parliament. Despite strong expressions...
Charged were Michael Senft, 44, the firms' general partner, and Walter Orchard, 35, who had served both companies as chief tax trader. According to the 63-count indictment, Senft, Orchard and three other defendants provided their unwitting customers with tax write-offs without actually buying or selling any Government securities. Instead, the grand jury charged, the firms simply falsified documents to make it look as if trading had occurred, and then presented the phony records to their clients...
Only Elvira escapes Scarface alive; every other character goes down in a hailstorm of bullets. It is this ferocity, plus the complementary fusillade of four-letter language (the commonest four-letter obscenity is, by conservative count, uttered 181 times), that originally won Scarface the poisonous X rating from the Motion Picture Association's ratings board. It was a bum rap and was overruled on appeal. Scarface is no fouler of mouth than Richard Pryor on a good day, and less graphic than the last three dozen splatter movies. It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where...
...section will be Expository Writing 17, "Theory and Practice," and will count for Expos credit. Program Director Richard C. Marius said yesterday...
Election commissioners attributed the change to an "error in transcription," Sandra Schier, the chairman of the count, said yesterday. The figures for yes votes and no votes on one tally sheet were reversed when they were transferred to the official tally sheet, she explained...