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...what other investigators, notably Journalist Claire Sterling, have already revealed. Where NBC does break new ground is in attributing a precise motive to Moscow. Citing unnamed Vatican sources, Kalb reports that the Pope sent a special envoy to the Kremlin in August 1980, while Poland was in the grip of a nationwide strike. The envoy allegedly gave Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev a handwritten letter from the Pope, who threatened to "lay down the crown of St. Peter" and return home to join the resistance if the Soviets moved against Poland. After a series of diplomatic shuttles between Moscow, Warsaw...
...Dunderhead tanks the LSATs, then will he lose his grip and deteriorate into a social misfit and turn to alcohol? Name something that's white and black and red all over. What kind of horse power do you get on John Deere lawn tractors, anyway...
...have lots of strikes, each major trade union has had plenty of arm wrestles with successive Governments over the last 30 years. Just this winter, there were 17 separate industrial actions. What is different is Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's renewed attempt to break the union's power grip on the country's services. She's risking economic disruption in the mids of a nation-wide economic downturn...
That audit proved to be inconclusive, but it led to a second, completed earlier this year, that uncovered $1.2 billion in unsecured lending. Calvi was buying up Ambrosiano stock, possibly using money borrowed on international financial markets by Ambrosiano and its subsidiaries, in an attempt to strengthen his grip on the parent bank. During 1978-79 and in 1981, Ambrosiano and its subsidiaries raised about $1.2 billion. In these years the banks lent at least $800 million to low-capitalized shell companies in Panama, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. The shell companies, in turn, used about $400 million to buy stock...
Thursday. Tried to convince myself that all this darting observation and febrile sensitivity of Woolf's is getting boring. Lost the argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...