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While Afrikaners adjusted to the shock of Mulder's resignation, Prime Minister P.W. Botha struggled desperately to prevent the scandal from spreading. Botha publicly dismissed Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert. The jurist had conducted a one-man probe of the operation of the slush fund during the time that Mulder served as Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. Mostert's report produced testimony from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions...
Time managed to overlook one USDA study conducted by economist Frank R. Baily. He comments that "we are so conditioned to equate bigness with efficiency that nearly everyone assumes that large-scale undertakings are inherently more efficient." But after a survey of farms in different regions of the country, he concluded that most economies of scale "are achieved by the one-man fully mechanized farm. While the most efficient farm size has increased in the last decade, due mainly to tractor improvements, this 1973 report found that most farmers need a much smaller acreage and capital investment than Pat Benedict...
When the story broke this summer, Vorster transferred control of the department to Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha. He retired the Rhoodie brothers and ordered the former head of the Bureau of State Security to undertake a probe of the charges. Mostert was named as a one-man commission to look into possible violations of currency controls. After a heated meeting at which Prime Minister Botha urged Mostert to delay releasing the report, the judge declared, "I have endeavored to discover what particular interest of the state is furthered by suppression, albeit temporary, rather than disclosure of the evidence...
...Senate, Democrat James Abourezk of South Dakota, a diehard opponent of natural gas deregulation, mounted a one-man filibuster that delayed the final vote for three days. Even after a 71-to-13 cloture vote, Abourezk, who is retiring from the Senate this year, obstinately continued his filibuster, causing Majority Leader Byrd to slump red-faced with anger in his chair. Abourezk, with a handful of supporters, kept talking for 15 hours, then gave up. Hours later, the bill passed, by 60 to 17 in the Senate and 231 to 168 in the House...
...vital cogs in Cornell's attack are sprint-out style quarterback Jim Hofer and blithe tailback Joe Holland, who graduated last year but is still eligible because of his transfer status from Michigan. Holland has been a one-man dynamo so far with 369 yards carrying in 67 rushes, compared to 34 carries in all of last year. "Quite frankly," says Blackman, "we didn't expect that much from him because he just wasn't that impressive when he carried the ball last year...