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Chief Justice Warren Burger an nounced that his assets totaled between $600,000 and $730,000 and that he owes between $100,000 and $200,000 (the law requires the reporting of only a range of wealth, not specific amounts...
...clover. Alabama Democrat Donald W. Stewart said that he had assets of between $355,000 and $890,000, but that he owed between $505,000 and $1.1 million. Massachusetts Democrat Paul E. Tsongas has assets of about $50,000 more than his liabilities, including a debt to Yale Law School...
Carter had promised that he would make a decision on Rhodesia by June 15, and had written to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd urging him "not to support any initiative that would preempt existing law or prejudge the issue at stake." This is exactly what Senator Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican who has long supported the white Rhodesian cause, had been thumping for. When Helms' position seemed to be gaining strength last week, the Senate settled for a compromise resolution that was not legally binding on the President. But one senior White House aide acknowledged that "some policy...
...brought a class-action suit against ten federal agencies last January. Sears wanted a clarification of affirmative-action policy and an admission from the Government that the company's hiring practices, long the subject of an investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were within the law...
...past four years, the Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Amway on a variety of charges that include fixing the retail prices that its independent salespeople could charge, allocating sales territories and misrepresenting the amount of money that distributors could earn. Last July an administrative-law judge in Washington threw out most of the FTC'S charges, but found that Amway was guilty of fixing prices. Amway officials contended that the practice had been discontinued in 1972. The judge's decision pleased neither Amway's nor the FTC'S lawyers, and both filed appeals. A ruling...