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...coup attempt sparked a flash of excitement at party headquarters, which is located across the street from the Chelsea Hotel in downtown Manhattan. About 8:30 a.m. every workday, Hall's chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile (he buys American and uses a cellular phone) pulls up to the curb in front of the eight-story brownstone, where staff members, still harboring paranoia left over from the days when the FBI tapped their lines and read their mail, answer the phone "4994" and dispatch envelopes without the party's name. Once in the building, Hall, a four-time presidential candidate, climbs into...
There is little disagreement on the need to curb spending. Though Connecticut's population grew only 5.8% during the past decade, outlays for government programs more than doubled. State funding helped boost the pay of Connecticut teachers 53% in the 1980s, giving them average salaries of $40,496, second highest in the nation. The state created new programs for the mentally handicapped and embarked on a costly prison-building program...
...bicycling home through Manhattan's Central Park. "I've taken the route so many times in % daylight I know it by heart," he says, "and I lined my bike up perfectly to shoot through an unlit passage." Perhaps the devil had been at work after all. A well-remembered curb had mysteriously moved several feet, and Morrow did a front flip into the air. He walked the rest of the way home, carrying his smashed bike, in pitch darkness...
...Federal Trade Commission has cracked down on a handful of infomercials for unsubstantiated claims, misrepresentation or outright fraud. One was the EuroTrym Diet Patch, an adhesive disk that attached to the skin and was supposed to curb the appetite. (It didn't.) The producer was slapped with a $1.5 million fine for making false claims for the device, as well as for two other products, Y-Bron, an impotence remedy, and Foliplexx, a treatment for baldness. At least six more infomercials are currently under investigation. "People are mesmerized by TV," says Barry Cutler, director of the FTC's Bureau...
...curb the excesses of the fanatics, the King appointed a religious moderate, Abdul Rahman al-Said, to head the mutawain, officially known as the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Al-Said, a former dean of Islamic studies at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, received an $18 million budget increase and instructions to rid the mutawain of zealous volunteers. But harassment of Saudis and foreigners by the mutawain continues, underscoring how difficult it will be for al-Said to gain control of the organization and its durable network of faculty and student supporters...