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...Turner's franchises. When the law came down on Turner for conspiracy to defraud investors, Bailey was indicted too. The evidence against Bailey was thin, but he had to abandon virtually everything else and spend $350,000 and two years fighting the charges, which were eventually dropped after an eight-month trial in Florida ended in a hung jury in 1974. Although Associate Johnson kept the Boston office open, the Bailey firm all but withered away; new business fell by 80%, and young associates left to find other jobs...
...eight-month tenure at the U.N., Moynihan attempted through public pronouncements to reestablish the justifications for U.S. world hegemony in the face of the "humiliations" of Vietnam. Moynihan presents himself as the defender of an imperiled Western civilization and increasingly threatened individual human rights. Time and again, he has pointed to what he believes is the gradual swallowing up, since World War II, of liberal democratic regimes in a sea of totalitarian states welling up from the third world. He expressed his vision most starkly in a speech last October in San Francisco: "It is sensed in the world that...
...tolerance of flagrant offenses in Cincinnati's taverns. One of them was the Clock Bar, a joint that offered free meals and booze to cops who overlooked the flourishing trade in hard drugs carried on there (one report said 646 bags of heroin were seized there in an eight-month period last year). Yet the Clock kept ticking; it did not close until a plainclothesman was shot to death near by last summer...
After long pretrial hearings, an eight-month trial involving millions of dollars in legal fees and nearly 20,000 pages of transcripts, followed by 14 months of deliberation, New York Surrogate Millard Midonick handed down a crushing verdict. The executors, he found, had acted with "improvidence and waste verging upon gross negligence." They had sold 100 Rothkos to Marlborough for an "unconscionably low" $1.8 million. They had also allowed Marlborough an inflated commission of 40% to 50% on consignment sales of the other 698 paintings...
...mortar and machine-gun battles along the front dividing Beirut's Moslem and Christian communities. Hundreds of kidnapings were reported by both sides. At week's end the fighting, which spilled over into the downtown banking and hotel district, had claimed more than 100 lives, bringing the eight-month death toll to more than 4,000. (Lebanon's population is only 3 million. It is as though the U.S. had suffered 250,000 deaths in a civil war.) "We cannot stand any more fighting," said Lebanon's almost despairing Moslem Premier, Rashid Karami. "The country...