Word: documented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the Sandinistas' promise to permit political pluralism, Nicaragua's opposition parties have found it difficult to communicate their messages to the public. Last month, for example, six parties issued a document proposing a cease-fire, an end to the state of emergency and a new schedule for elections. The proposal was censored from La Prensa, the country's only nongovernment newspaper, which regularly has stories excised by Interior Ministry watchdogs...
...confusion began last week, when Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, unveiled his tax-reform plan. Buried in the 250-page document was a two-sentence proposal to subject tax-exempt securities, like municipal bonds, to an "alternative minimum tax." The idea was that upper-income people who use municipal bonds as a shelter and pay little or no taxes would be subject to a 20% tax on the interest from the securities...
...Marcos papers, carried from Manila in six suitcases, hint at a worldwide network of almost unimaginable wealth. One balance sheet alone lists a total of $88.7 million in five banks in the U.S., Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Imelda Marcos' taste for opulent adornment was also in evidence. A document dated November 1984 shows $411,746 in purchases of jewelry, including emeralds, rubies and one 519-carat sapphire. There were indications that the Marcoses may have sensed their impending ouster. Among the papers were $4 million in certificates and bearer bonds, most of which were issued in the month before...
...most provocative discoveries was a one-page typewritten memo that appeared to be a ledger of 1980 contributions made by a San Francisco-based organization called the Mabuhay Corp. The firm was headed by Leonilo Malabed, a physician and longtime Marcos friend. The document, dated Feb. 15, 1982, lists $50,000 donations to G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful Ronald Reagan, Incumbent President Jimmy Carter and Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California. The memo was not initialed or signed, and there was no evidence that these contributions, which would have violated federal law, were ever received. All three men vehemently denied ever getting...
...ongoing reunion negotiations. For 17 years the president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Willebrands may have had an eye cocked at the five-day in-camera meeting this week in Toronto of the heads of all 28 autonomous branches of world Anglicanism. By releasing the document now, Rome also seeks to provoke hard ecumenical thinking in advance of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a- decade meeting that embraces some 600 Anglican bishops around the world...