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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over a period of five months. On one 1978 tape, he could be heard accepting $5,000 in cash from Montella in the men's room of a New York City hotel. Montella, the onetime owner of a marine carpentry company, testified that the payment was supposed to help prevent labor troubles...
...seats, the crucial struggle will take place among the seven or so black factions vying for the remaining 80 seats. These parties are so deeply divided by tribal and personal differences that many observers fear no national leader will emerge and a shaky coalition is inevitable. "God help us if that happens," says a white trade unionist in Salisbury. "Can you imagine Nkomo, Mugabe and the bishop [Muzorewa] in the same Cabinet...
...years he had kept his guilty secret, with the help of successive British governments and possibly even Queen Elizabeth II. But early this month a new book by Journalist Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason, claimed that there had been a "fourth man" in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby spy ring of the 1940s and early 1950s. Boyle, who apparently drew heavily on sources formerly in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, even hinted broadly at his name, prompting questions from Labor members in Parliament. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replied with a written statement that essentially admitted...
Meanwhile, Chrysler's rescue plans move sluggishly. Under the Government's $1.5 billion loan guarantee plan, the company must come up with an equal amount of outside help. But banks are showing reluctance to sink more money into the troubled company. Chrysler thus last week was asked by the Government to step up its so far futile efforts for a possible joint venture with a Japanese or European car firm in order to raise additional cash...
...only the exotic Kiri Te Kanawa, as Donna Elvira, manages to shake off some of Losey's heavy seriousness. Missing are the wit and verve, the "elate darting rhythms" with which Shaw said Mozart conveyed the spirit of the work. Here the music is not as much help as it might be, since Lorin Maazel conducts it with such grim, unrelenting drive. (The complete soundtrack has been released in a three-LP set by Columbia...