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...symbol of freedom because of his support for human rights. Later, when he placed flowers at the Nike (Greek for victory) monument to the Poles who died in a 1944 uprising against the Nazis and at the memorial to the Jews massacred in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, police kept away all but a handful of official observers. The Polish government had tried to persuade Carter not to visit either site. The first is a painful reminder that Soviet troops could have intervened in the uprising but instead waited, just across the Vistula River, until Warsaw was leveled; the second...
...coerced to testify and that he feared the evidence would be used against him in a federal case, Hansen refused to testify in court. Circuit Judge Toshimi Sodetani held Hansen in contempt, jailed him for two weeks, then brought him back to the witness stand last week. Again Hansen kept mum, and Prosecutor Cooper, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney hired by Hawaii to handle the case, had no choice but to move for dismissal. Said Cooper to the court as Hansen was set free and Fasi taken off the hook: "Justice has been thwarted." So, too. may be Ariyoshi...
Arthur Burns had not wanted to leave his post, and had been publicly deferential toward the President lately. Carter, in return, consistently flattered Burns, and throughout the fall kept insisting that there was no real dispute between them...
That same frugality has kept Textron remarkably free of borrowing. At the beginning of last year, its long-term debt totaled only $227 million, minuscule for a company of Textron's size, and especially for a conglomerate. Some of Miller's ideas for managing the economy are equally conservative. For example, he believes that the Government should increase capital investment by giving business higher depreciation allowances and increased investment tax credits...
...five-player thrust that kept Harvard in the lead, as floor general Fine dribbled deftly and handed off assists, Booker and Stenhouse took care of the scoring, Allen defended Caligaris as well as can be expected, and Ackerman chipped in with a couple of uncharacteristic gyrating...