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...Morgenthau, who faces an election this year, the case has become a political snare. Those upset by the first grand jury's lenient treatment contend that the district attorney did not press the grand jury hard enough for an indictment for attempted homicide against Goetz, who had overnight become celebrated as a quirky urban hero, an Everyman who finally fought back. In New York, unlike some other states, prosecutors seeking a grand jury indictment are required to present a balanced case and must include exculpatory evidence. Even so Morgenthau was astonished by the original grand jury's finding. "We thought...
...summer of 1963 I joined the Soviet mission to the U.N. Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko, head of the mission, was an elegant man and a lenient boss whose consuming interest in foreign affairs lay in China. He was a true expert, a member of the Academy of Sciences. As time went on, he delegated more and more responsibility to others and retreated into scholarly pursuits. This earned him Gromyko's distrust...
Perhaps worst, the punishment was collective. Goetz had been mugged four years ago and had brooded ever since over the lenient treatment his attackers received. These four were paying for more than their own sins. A whole class of muggers got theirs on the downtown express. But the law, which still prevails aboveground, does not permit trial by class. Everyone pays for his sins only. Even criminals cannot remain abstract...
...been the pride of Chicago, a premier banking institution, a leader in world finance. Fortune ranked it among the top 10 banks in all measures of financial soundness, including profits, assets, equity, and deposits. But all of these positive factors tempted the bank's directors to become more lenient when granting loans to creditors of questionable financial soundness. Continental Illinois's purchase of sour energy loans from a failing Penn Square Bank precipitated its own eventual demise, as did its involvement in the great rush into Third World financing of the 1970s...
...money, the fund insists on a range of tightfisted economic policies that could shatter the country's brittle new democracy. Two weeks ago, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín bypassed fund negotiators and appealed directly to IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosière for more lenient terms. Yet neither Alfonsín nor any other leader can simply defy the fund. Its seal of approval is the key to vital commercial credit. "The power of the IMF is absolute," says Paul Singer, an economist at the University of Sao Paulo. "No foreign country...