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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wallach and Chinn have taken their Fifth Amendment protection against self- incrimination rather than cooperate with McKay in the Meese probe. For his part, Meese contends he knew nothing about the details of the Chinn investments...
...friends Betsy Bloomingdale and Marion Jorgensen began a surreptitious search in the area. But word got around the real estate circuit, and the women were besieged by eager brokers. When a social acquaintance of Jorgensen's telephoned her to say that her elderly, recently widowed niece might want to part with her St. Cloud home, Jorgensen and Bloomingdale found what they -- and the Reagans -- had been looking for. In August 1986, Wall Management quietly bought the house and leased it back to the widow, who has since died. Reagan had apparently considered a few houses about a year...
...Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional $380 million would go to double the number of housing units for which the Department of Housing and Urban Development pays part of the rent for needy tenants...
...bowing to government pressure and reopening stores that had been shut for ten days by the general strike. Meanwhile, several U.S. companies, including Texaco and Eastern Air Lines, paid nearly $3 million in taxes and fees to Panama's cash- starved treasury. The firms said the payments were part of the normal course of business. The money temporarily relieved a financial squeeze that had grown severe since Washington froze some $50 million in Panamanian funds in the U.S last month. To prevent companies from easing Noriega's fiscal woes any further, the Administration belatedly asked U.S. firms to put future...
...most notorious IRS foul-ups occurred last July, when the agency seized $70.76 in a bank account belonging to nine-year-old Carmin Fisher of Junction City, Ore. The Government was trying to collect part of a delinquent $21,182 bill owed by Carmin's grandfather Charles Fisher. Only after the case got nationwide attention did the IRS back down and return the money, saying it had mistakenly assumed that Carmin's grandmother, who was listed as guardian, owned the account...