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Reagan must bear in mind the Watergate precedent. In 1974, only one month after Richard Nixon's resignation, Gerald Ford pardoned him for all crimes he might have committed during his presidency. Ford's action left a bitter taste with many voters and may have contributed to his narrow loss to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election. Reagan, of course, is not a candidate for re-election, but he has become increasingly concerned with his place in history and would not want to be remembered for having weakened the chances of the Republican nominee...
...Lynchburg ministry. Bakker loyalists remain unconvinced. Said Robert Zanesky, the lawyer for a group of PTL contributors intent on removing Falwell: "His credibility stinks." Says Ryan Hovis, a bankruptcy lawyer representing Bakker: "No stockholder in Chrysler would sit still if Lee Iacocca were chairman of the board for Ford...
...with many semesters abroad, such a move would force undergraduates to acquire the familiarity with another country that comes only through first-hand experience. And as Bok hopes, these students also could act out their roles as undercover agents for American business, secretly conducting market research for IBM and Ford's export divisions...
...presidential race has come to resemble a marathon encounter session: long periods of tedium punctuated by embarrassing personal disclosures. The latest revelation came last week when Kitty Dukakis, 50, the seemingly self- assured wife of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, publicly enrolled in the Betty Ford school of political candor. Her secret: 26 years of mild amphetamine dependency that ended in 1982 after she secretly entered a drug- rehabilitation clinic in Minnesota...
Some of those who rushed to buy an expensive robotic system got less than they bargained for. At a Ford Motor plant in St. Louis, snags in 200 production-line robots delayed the 1986 introduction of the Aerostar minivan. Then the discovery that the same robots had been skipping many key welds led to the recall three months later of some 30,000 of the vehicles. In another disastrous episode, a Campbell Soup plant in Napoleon, Ohio, was outfitted with a $215,000 system designed to lift 50-lb. cases of soup. But anytime it encountered defective cases, the machine...