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...Edwin Meese and former White House Political Adviser Lyn Nofziger are under investigation by Independent Counsel James McKay, in part because of possible improper lobbying that helped Wedtech win an Army contract, eventually worth $32 million, under the SBA program in 1982. Last week Meese testified before a federal grand jury in Washington that is hearing evidence from McKay. Meese's lawyer revealed that the Attorney General had also secretly appeared before the grand jury in March. Not until a month later did Meese disqualify himself from the Justice Department's own Wedtech investigation...
...biggest headlines were produced in New York City last week as another federal grand jury investigating Wedtech indicted seven men, including Bronx Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi and his son, on a variety of extortion, racketeering and conspiracy charges. The 84-page indictment depicted Wedtech as a racketeering enterprise dependent on bribes to public officials to win no-bid minority contracts...
...biggest day was our grand opening," said Murdean Gulsvig, the cook this day, along with his wife Doris. Opening day was Feb. 1, 1986. They served 134 people in their new $34,000 building. Last year they took in $51,000, about $11,000 of that a clear profit. Today they owe only about $5,000 on their mortgage. "We're a nonprofit organization," volunteered Walter Barbknecht, who owns a striking resemblance to Mortimer Snerd. "When we're making money and not owing money, it has to be spent in the community. The park needs some equipment. And we just...
Against this background, the singular hubris of IBA was to try to have it both ways -- a large-scale building program like those of the '20s and '50s, but with the strong concern for tradition and diversity that has predominated in the late '70s and '80s. The ambitions were grand, in true German style, but not grandiose. Indeed, Kleihues himself has written that IBA is "ultimately doomed to fall short of the aims it has set itself." Yet those aims were liberating because they were antimonumental. Berlin has lived (and nearly died) through all the various 20th century dreams...
...sophomores, the seniors broke a four-year Yale winning streak at the New London race. They journeyed to Henley and captured rowing's most prestigious prize, the Grand Challenge Cup. And best of all, they have remained with the program throughout their years at Harvard--nine of the 16 oarsmen in the varsity and JV at Yale last Saturday are members of the class...