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Another potential loser is Chase Manhattan, the third-largest U.S. bank. Already reeling from a $117 million loss in the second quarter because of shaky deals with the now defunct Wall Street trading firm of Drysdale Government Securities Inc., Chase last week faced at least partial write-offs on perhaps $250 million worth of bad loans...
Even the networks have been able to counter Israel's censors, albeit with delay and at considerable expense. Duplicate copies of tapes routinely have been sent overland to Syria or by boat to Cyprus for satellite transmission. Indeed, the only evident loser in the controversy has been Israel, whose image in the U.S. has surely not been enhanced by censorship labels on prime-time TV newscasts. Israeli officials argue that they are being subjected s to an unfair and inconsistent standard. Says Government Press Office Director Ze'ev Chafets: "We let the networks use our facilities for sending...
...second observation is that any forced analogies the Right will make-like that of Hinckley to Haldeman-are preposterous. Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon offended us because Nixon evaded liability for his action by using his contacts within government, when a friendless outsider, a loser like Hinckley, is let off there is, at least, no collusion to abhor. Whether the jury last week correctly deemed Hinckley insane will always be a judgement call. But the fact that he could win his reprieve from a system whose participants were predisposed against him seems worth applauding for a moment...
...Wilson boarded the plane, as did two U.S. marshals. When the plane landed at Kennedy International Airport at 12:30 p.m., the marshals arrested him. "He was very gracious," said one of the marshals. "He acted as if he had played a hard game and was being a good loser...
...seeks what Lami Dozo calls "a new place in the world." However that evolves, Argentina will clearly continue to be hostile to the U.S., which before the war had been successfully wooing it as an ally in the fight against Communism in the Western Hemisphere. "There is only one loser in all this, and that is the U.S.," said an Argentine official. "We can sign a treaty with Great Britain, the enemy, and it will be over. But what do we do about the U.S., supposedly our friend? We are betrayed. Things will never be the same again." Reagan...