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...bank examiners swept into all five of Butcher's banks, as well as 24 smaller banks controlled by his brother C.H. Says Stephen Woodrough, the FDIC regional counsel in Atlanta: "We wanted to see how much bad paper was really there. The situation at U.A.B. was very, very grave indeed." The FDIC concluded that $90 million in loans should be written...
...Latin American Citizens. Torres adds that his organization no longer bothers to lobby the White House on judicial choices. His anguish is shared by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gladys Kessler, head of the National Association of Women Judges. "The record is dismal," says Kessler. "We have some grave concerns about whether this Administration is really looking for women candidates." She also charges that potential female judges are being scrutinized more closely than males on their opposition to abortion...
...asked that everyone stop the shouting. She also asked the Chief Rabbi to please stop. Emil Greenzweig, a reserve paratroop officer who had fought in the 1967 war, the 1969-70 war of attrition, the 1973 war and the war in Lebanon, was then buried near the grave of his father...
...faded ribbons entangled with wilted leaves and a torn flag, once black but now faded to a blotchy purple, are the only mementos left at the mass grave site inside the entrance to Shatila camp. Children on their way home from school skip across the weed-covered burial ground, looking for bits of refuse that can serve as toys. They seem ignorant or uncaring of the fact that beneath their feet lie the bodies of some 200 of the estimated 700 people slaughtered during those 38 grim hours last fall...
...grave site goes untended, but for those who were present at the time of the massacre it still has an inescapable presence. "I always think of those days," says a middle-aged Palestinian man who lost his wife and five children in the killings. "But I cannot think too much." The man has a piece of shrapnel in his skull and another in his leg from the bombs that exploded during the siege of Beirut. He now tends a small clothing store with his sole surviving relative, his father. Says the son: "When I think of the killings...