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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heimann found that on numerous occasions Lance may have used an airplane owned by the National Bank of Georgia for both personal and political purposes from 1975 to 1977. The comptroller considered this matter serious enough to refer to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. Political use of the plane could be viewed as a corporate campaign donation and thus a violation of federal election laws. Personal use of the plane, if written off as a business expense and deducted from income taxes, could be a tax crime...
...plane issue might seem minor. The line between using a plane legitimately to build good will for a corporation and using it illegally seems fuzzy. Even so, a criminal investigation of Lance was just one new problem too many...
Except for what nature, in an eruption of volcanic anger, has left ugly and almost immutable, there was little visible to recall Kalaupapa's dismal history as the plane circled to land on a short but well-blacktopped strip. During the drive to the health department offices and the hospital with Dr. Leslie Charles Koch, chief of Hawaii's State Leprosy Control Program, who was making one of his twice-weekly visits to the colony, there were cheery waves and "Alohas" from patients...
...School, readily acknowledges as the "best and the brightest syndrome": There is always the danger the school will create an Eastern, intellectual elite--perhaps as incapable of understanding the public and as callous to ethics and social values as the elite of the early '60s. On a less dramatic plane, Bok and company may simply be guilty of unrealistic goals, the nature of which, Allison says, "is somewhat related to the character of the University...
...halfway around the world. For the past two years, Keenan has served as one of the three American members of the board of overseers of the new Iranian national graduate school being built outside Teheran, Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU). Four times a year, Keenan makes the 16-hour plane trip to Teheran, where he confers with the other RSKU directors over a three-day weekend...