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...conference committee attempting to devise a compromise tax package entered its third week of negotiations yesterday. The main sticking point has been a Senate proposal to extend the five percent sales tax to professional services, including legal fees and accounting...
...federal government made a last-ditch attempt to save the deal. Mulroney's chief constitutional negotiator, Senator Lowell Murray, announced that the government would ask the Supreme Court to extend the June 23 deadline, thus giving Manitoba time to complete its ratification. The maneuver had the opposite result. The premier of the other dissenting province, Newfoundland's Clyde Wells, complaining bitterly of the "fabricated precipice" of the June 23 deadline, then called off his own legislature's vote. Murray announced an hour later that the accord had expired...
Trump, who has a ten-day grace period to make his bond payment, may be trying to increase the pressure on his bankers in their negotiations to restructure his $2 billion debt load. Four major New York City banks have already agreed on a proposal that would extend him an additional $60 million to meet payment deadlines. But some of the smaller New Jersey banks reportedly balked at the terms because they felt they were taking on too much risk under the new arrangement...
...such perks allegedly came from the thrift's vaults. According to the indictment, the rent on Dixon's beach house was paid by an associate, Jack Atkinson, who had got loans from Vernon. All told, Atkinson paid $577,000 in rent through loans. When Vernon would no longer extend the credit, Dixon allegedly arranged for Atkinson to receive an extra $24,200 as a "consulting" fee, which also went toward the rent...
...still larger number of Congressmen say they support any nation's right to self-determination. Their lofty concern apparently does not extend to Quebec, Slovakia, Palestine or other areas where minorities are seeking nationhood, perhaps because U.S. voter rolls do not include large numbers of French- Canadians, Slovaks or Palestinians. Though Lithuanian Americans have been highly vocal, they are small in number and there is no organized Lithuanian lobby in the U.S. But millions of Americans of East European ancestry nurse a long-standing and understandable grudge against Moscow...