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Mernick's family has long dealt in real estate, and his worth is estimated at $40 million. Heretofore he has made more mundane investments: landfill sites, travel agencies and assorted properties. He negotiated with M.C. ("Red") Benton, the wily PTL trustee named by a federal bankruptcy court, outbidding another Canadian with a $115 million offer. Some $65 million of that is supposed to be dispersed eventually among PTL creditors, the IRS and the 114,200 "lifetime partners" who each gave Bakker $1,000 or more to help develop the ministry...
...fiscal year 1988, 3172 complaints were filed, almost double the number the commission annually dealt with a decade ago. The current figure is also more than 11 times MCAD's annual caseload during the 1940s and 1950s...
Although the budget cuts and increasing caseload have placed additional burdens on MCAD, the agency has improved in some areas. Al Owens, director of the Boston branch of the NAACP says that since 1986, the commission has dealt with complaints more thoroughly. MCAD officials themselves say that the agency has grown more aggressive under Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' administration...
When the government tried to push through the bills by declaring that they affected whites only and therefore would be dealt with by the all-white chamber of the tricameral Parliament, the mixed-race Labor Party responded by threatening to quit the body. In a sudden, unexpected retreat, the government announced last week that it would withdraw the bills, rewrite them, and then submit them to all three houses of Parliament. The delay is considered only a temporary setback for Botha, who has ample time to force the legislation through the President's Council and into law before the national...
Though the arrests dealt a blow to Fatah's organization in the occupied territories, the uprising showed no signs of letting up. Last week's rioting, the worst in six months, left three Palestinians dead, including a nine-year- old Arab girl, and some 300 injured, many of them from beatings. The Palestinian death toll after nine months of unrest...