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...filed in U.S. district court last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Comptroller of the Currency. The borrowing arose, said the examiners, because a number of Lance's relatives "were experiencing extreme financial difficulties and needed additional funds to meet living expenses." The sweeping, 90-page complaint was the final act in the agencies' seven-month investigation of Lance, the Calhoun bank and the National Bank of Georgia (NBG), which Lance headed in 1975 and 1976. The investigation began shortly before he resigned last September as Jimmy Carter's Director of Management and Budget...
Both the jittery mood of Congress and the Administration's recognition that some concession to its feelings was necessary reflected the fact that a lot of lobbying was going on. Except for a few full-page newspaper ads by Jewish organizations, however, much of that activity was characteristically invisible, the spontaneous reaction of many of the 5.8 million Jews in the U.S. "There has been a tremendous outpouring of mail," says one congressional staffer. "But no one has to tell concerned Jews to write to their Congressman. When they see an issue that is dangerous to Israel, they respond...
...dominate referendum debates, Powell responded that the same could be said of news organizations, whose First Amendment rights are unquestioned. Powell's comment on the power of the press was almost an aside. Filing a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger aired the same view in an eight-page essay that at times bordered on a polemic. "Modern media empires" enjoy "vastly greater influence" than most banks or corporations, stated Burger. They "pose a much more realistic threat to valid interests...
Next October, for the first time in a decade, the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) will convene again, this time in Puebla, Mexico, and the encounter promises to be a heated one. Already a 214-page working paper for the Puebla conference, written by Latin Americans but backed by the Vatican to cool the enthusiasms of liberation theology, has touched off angry debate. The bishops of Panama had earlier denounced the working paper, and last week, meeting near São Paulo, 230 bishops of Brazil−by far the largest contingent headed for Puebla−added their...
Hughes' book is interesting for the long quotations from Gardner about mystery writing. These are wise, and written with breathtaking authority. There is also an excellent 29-page bibliography. One suspects that Gardner would disapprove of the rest: the prim prose, the slapdash production (pages are numbered only fitfully; there is one flying leap from 186 to 204), the amateurish illustration. Gardner...