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Alan Greenspan. In 1985 Keating hired the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, then a private economic consultant, to convince the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) that Lincoln was sound and should be exempt from a rule limiting direct investments in risky enterprises to 10% of a bank's portfolio. Though Greenspan wrote to the board on Lincoln's behalf in February 1985, the board turned down the exemption request. But Government officials who let Keating keep control of the S & L still brandish the Greenspan study when they come under fire. If Keating could fool...
Wendehals literally means turn neck, the name of a rare bird that can twist its head 180 degrees; the word has been adopted by East Germans to refer to the thousands of Communist Party officials, from Egon Krenz, the current party leader, down to district secretaries, who overnight began to sound as if they had joined the pro-democracy movement. A favorite target is Gunter Mittag, the recently sacked Politburo member in charge of the economy. Described by the newly outspoken East German press as arrogant and autocratic, Mittag is being held responsible for wrecking the economy and cooking...
...history, but of that other cold war, the one between divorced ex-husbands and their former wives. One of Samson's deep fears has been that Fiona would get custody of their two teenage children and spirit them off to the G.D.R. Fiona surfaces with a flourish in the current novel, her fans will be glad to learn, leaving two important issues unresolved. One is whether she was a real defector or, possibly, a truly extraordinary double agent. The other is how long Gloria, Samson's newly acquired young mistress, will be willing to stay home and baby...
...this has bubbled cheerfully in the two novels that followed Berlin Game in Deighton's first Samson trilogy, Mexico Set and London Match, and then in Spy Hook, the beginning of a second trilogy, which has Samson under suspicion and on the run from his own colleagues. The current Spy Line sags just a bit, but it will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite...
...balks, however, the commission has vowed to take its proposals to the voters as a ballot initiative, which may assure victory since Californians tend to approve such measures. Once enacted, Los Angeles' no-nonsense ethics rules could become the model for municipalities like New York City and Chicago, whose current guidelines are not as tough. Says Bruce Jennings, an associate at the Hastings Center, an ethics institute in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: "Cities will see the Los Angeles code as a bellwether for what the public expects of government officials...