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Despite the medical recognition of alcoholism as a disease 21 years ago, there is still uncertainty over its legal status as an illness. Michael Deaver, the former aide to President Reagan who is on trial for lying to a grand jury about his lobbying activities, is arguing that he was not responsible because he is an alcoholic and his drinking at the time impaired his memory of events and facts. In the past the so-called alcoholism defense generally has not been very successful, but it has worked on occasion in perjury cases...
...when Brown appeared before Judge Robert Lippmann five days after her commitment to Bellevue, she was calm and articulate. The nearest public toilet was at Grand Central Terminal, too far to walk, she explained. She tore up money when she had enough for the day because it was dangerous to carry cash at night. Yet do-gooders persisted. "I've heard people say, 'Take it, it will make me feel good,' or 'I'm only trying to help you,' " Brown complained. "Is it my job to make them feel good...
Their son Manes is 28 now, working in Mexico City for the Mexican national football team, and Jimmy Goldsmith, officially Sir James Goldsmith, is not exactly penniless anymore. His net worth is estimated to be more than $1.2 billion, including holdings ranging from the Grand Union grocery chain to a publishing house in Paris to some oil wells in Guatemala to about 2.5 million acres of rich timberland in Washington, Oregon and Louisiana. And because he liquidated most of his French and British holdings in recent months -- "I've got my bundle," he likes to say in these postcrash days...
...invaded Britain in 1957, gained control of the British food company Bovril in 1971, reorganized it, moved on to the U.S. in 1973, acquired the ailing Grand Union chain for $62 million, reorganized it, launched a raid on Diamond International, began eyeing St. Regis, the Continental Group, Colgate- Palmolive, Crown Zellerbach, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Pan Am. He operated through a network of Panamanian and Caribbean holding companies, all ultimately controlled by an organization called the Brunneria Foundation, headquartered in Liechtenstein and entirely owned by Goldsmith and his family...
Americans, traditionally enthralled with the shiny and new, have had a monumental change of heart. They have rediscovered the virtues of city centers, many of which, 20 years ago, were left for dead. The result: scores of neighborhoods, hundreds of grand landmarks and thousands of more modest old buildings are being brought joyously back to life. See DESIGN...