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Bert Lance was summoned last week for what was supposed to be an unpublicized interrogation by Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann, who is investigating loans the budget director has received. After the hour-long session, Lance hastily called a press conference to reveal-and rebut-new questions Heimann had raised about a $2.6 million loan to Lance by New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust in April 1975, soon after he became president of the National Bank of Georgia. The big question is whether Lance got the credit as an improper quid pro quo for having his NBG place...
...Geneva, at the Third World-dominated U.N. Commission on Human Rights, U.S. Delegate Allard K. Lowenstein proposed that the organization request information from the Soviets on the arrest and detention of dissidents. In response, the Russian delegate, Valerian Zorin, launched into an angry hour-long diatribe against the American's "illegal abuse of the commission's authority" and warned that "inventing pretexts for defending human rights is not conducive to positive development of Soviet-American relations...
...Kenya and Uganda in economic union, and the open hostility of Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada, who accuses him of plotting an "invasion" in cahoots with former Ugandan President Milton Obote. Nonetheless, the future of southern Africa remains Nyerere's main concern, as he made clear in an hour-long interview with TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs last week at his two-story villa in Dar es Salaam...
Peering deep into the womb of a pregnant woman, doctors have succeeded in exploring and filming-at a remarkably early stage of development-the secret world of the living human embryo. The results of their efforts are the dramatic highlight of an hour-long CBS television special, The Miracle Months, which will be broadcast on March 16 at 8 p.m. E.S.T. Written by Physician-Author Robert E. Fuisz, Miracle Months is a moving, prime-time tribute to recent spectacular progress in prenatal care-advances that enable doctors to salvage many pregnancies for which there was once little or no hope...
...Faculty Council yesterday moved one step closer to approving a series of minority student committee proposals for the reorganization of minority recruitment and admissions at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in an hour-long question-and-answer session with representatives of the student group...