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...trial began, the White House received a classified study by a team headed by ex-Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. The study blamed U.S. personnel for a "deterioration of security practices" at the Moscow embassy. Among its recommendations: once Marine guards have served in Moscow, they should be transferred out of the security force to prevent KGB infiltration...
...central protagonists of the PTL turmoil, meanwhile, continued to parade their opulent life-styles. The couple breezed into San Francisco on July 11 as guests of their flamboyant tort lawyer, Melvin Belli, who is now laying the legal groundwork in his effort to have Bakker reinstated at PTL. During their week-long stay, the Bakkers were billeted on Belli's 105-ft. ocean-going yacht, The Adequate Reward, and were taken to parties, dinners and exclusive stores by Belli's wife Lia. Tammy enjoyed a makeover at Lia's favorite hair salon, 77 Maiden Lane...
...anything, happened in the Marine case. Says Robert Lamb, head of the State Department's bureau of diplomatic security: "We've got a lot of work before we can give even an interim judgment." A classified report completed this month by a presidential commission led by former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird is said to recommend the creation of a new elite guard corps...
...took a terrible beating for years," Lawson says, drinking in the day. "Somewhere back in here is Melvin Belli's office." He sweeps an arm round San Francisco. "I sat there. He said, 'No remedy. No money in it.' I went to the best-known attorneys, the highest priced. They said by and large you don't win against the police department. They didn't understand that I knew I could beat them on my own turf, the media. Most people who can communicate, communicate. Those who can't, carry guns. I thought surely at some point sanity would prevail...
Clay Jenkinson, a humanities scholar, has teamed up with Melvin Kahn, a professor of political science at Wichita State University, to play Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Founding Fathers with very different ideas about government. Touring the Midwest, the actors have discovered that while most of their audiences sympathize with the populist views of Jefferson, they actually vote for Hamilton, whose vision of a strong central government they find more realistic. "I've come to the conclusion that we live in a Hamiltonian nation with a Jeffersonian rhetoric," says Jenkinson ruefully...