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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was good reason for his discretion. The challenge facing Italy is a forceful, intensified demand by the Communists for a direct role in an emergency government that would deal with Italy's mounting economic, labor and law-and-order problems. The Christian Democrats' dilemma: find a compromise that would give the Communists new power in governing Italy, however that role might be disguised, or face the trauma of another early national election that would further polarize the country...
...called in Lisbon, could reasonably argue that the alternative to a new Socialist-led coalition would be disaster. If President Eanes had decided to call for new elections, the country would not have had a working government for about six months. Reason: a census would be required first, in order to register newcomers to the electoral rolls, notably refugees from Portugal's former African territories. Furthermore, the government crisis had halted crucial negotiations in progress with the International Monetary Fund, which has demanded an austerity program to check inflation and reduce trade deficits as a condition for $750 million...
Carr was arrested in Boston on charges that he had failed to obey an order by a Michigan federal court to cease violating securities laws. After Carr was released on $100,000 bail, authorities believe, he fled to Bermuda or the Cayman islands. An FBI fingerprint check revealed that "James Carr" was really one Alan Abrahams, an escaped convict with a 22-year criminal record, who in 1974 had fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much...
Last week a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the firm to cease operating and placed it in receivership. Many questions remain as to why the regulators did not investigate and act sooner. Although the CFTC denied the firm registration, Lloyd, Carr continued its operations for several months while challenging a shutdown order. Criminal fraud was never an issue during that period. However, some critics maintain that the CFTC withheld evidence that hampered state investigations. At week's end the only response from embarrassed CFTC officials was that they were not changing operational methods. As for the elusive Abrahams: Criminal...
...Hollywood it is called "working the set." It happens when a producer has ordered up some costly and elaborate make-believe edifice that he wants on the screen constantly, shot from as many angles as possible, in order to justify its expense. Far from resisting this demand, the director will typically respond with bursts of enthusiastic inventiveness-a kid playing happily with a splendid...