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...Memorandum for all members of the Board of Overseers...
...Gulf & Western's stock, had collaborated to run up the price of those shares by fueling rumors that the company would be a takeover target. The two then sold their shares back to Gulf & Western for a profit. That ploy would have amounted to illegal stock manipulation. In a memorandum to his TWA staff, Icahn denounced the accusation: "I have never traded on insider information...
...secret talks with Iran put Secretary of State George Shultz in a particularly uncomfortable spot. What he knew about them is uncertain. He was surely aware of the meetings between National Security Council officials and Iranian representatives. As a member of the NSC, he was privy to a presidential memorandum in February summarizing the meetings to that date and directing that they continue. According to some reports, he heard about the arms shipments and protested vainly against them to the President. Some of Shultz's subordinates, however, think the Secretary did not learn about the arms transactions until the rest...
...Senate, Democrats led by Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden reviewed Rehnquist's opposition to desegregation and cited a newly discovered memorandum the Justice wrote in 1970 opposing the Equal Rights Amendment. But only about 30 Senators are committed to blocking the nomination, with several more wavering. Said a Biden aide: "That doesn...
...Were the death penalty applicable," said U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello in a memorandum to San Francisco federal district court, "the Government would undoubtedly be seeking the death penalty in this case." Since federal law does not provide capital punishment for peacetime espionage, Judge John Vukasin chose the closest thing: he sentenced Jerry Whitworth, a member of the Walker family espionage ring, to 365 years in prison. Whitworth will not be eligible for parole for 60 years, when he would be 107. "Jerry Whitworth," said Vukasin, "is a zero at the bone," a man who had betrayed his country for money...