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...savings and loan associations are hailing the Super NOW. Because they have relatively few checking accounts, they expect the Super NOW to bring in mostly new money and are paying high rates Chicago's St. Paul Federal Savings & Loan is offering 11%. New York City's Dry Dock Savings Bank is paying 8.6% on $5,000 deposits and 11.3% on $25,000 accounts, with no fees unless the customer writes more than 30 checks a month. Says Dry Dock Chairman Robert Steele: "We're new to the checking-account business, and we hope to make a major...
...supply-siders is that their theories are nonsense," retorts Klein. Then he adds, in only partial jest: "They pulled a vast swindle on the American public-so much so that I've often thought that if there were Nuremberg trials for economists, supply-siders would be in the dock...
...kept cyanide in his South Side Chicago home. Although he was arraigned on other charges (including failing to register firearms), there were curious coincidences in terms of the Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area. For the past 13 years Arnold has worked on the loading dock of the Jewel Food warehouse in suburban Melrose Park. Tainted Tylenol was found in two Jewel supermarkets. Describing Arnold as a "closet chemist," police searched his house and turned up a suspicious-looking plastic bag of white powder, along with drug manuals that contained instructions for encapsulating cyanide...
...anti-Israeli reaction was worldwide. France became the first government to condemn Israel for its role in the massacre. In Italy, dock workers refused to load Israeli vessels, and airport workers announced a boycott of all flights between Israel and Italy, forcing passengers to clamber down from the planes and carry their own baggage to the terminal. In Britain, Foreign Secretary Francis Pym said that when Israel allowed the Christian militia to go into the camps, "you would expect horrifying results. So at best it was incompetent. But I suspect it was worse than that...
Nonetheless, the celebrations continued. When a shipload of guerrillas reached the Syrian port of Tartus, they were greeted by shouts of "Victory!" and "Palestine!" Five sheep were slaughtered on the dock and skinned to provide a carpet for the visitors to walk upon as they came ashore. When a four-year-old Palestinian boy in Beirut asked his father, "Why is everybody shooting?" he was told, "To celebrate a great victory." To which the boy replied, "But if the soldiers won, why are they going?" The answer, only partly obscured by the fanfare of the occasion, was that they...