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...waves of anxiety from Ohio's savings-and-loan panic started to calm down last week, members of the banking community desperately hoped for a respite from further turmoil. But they did not get it. Another bout of uneasiness hit the financial industry, this time inspired partly by the plight of Texas banks laden with bad loans in energy and real estate. Meanwhile, everyone from divorce lawyers to the FBI was busily looking for culprits in the failure of Home State Savings, the Cincinnati thrift whose sudden collapse last month touched off a minor financial panic. The scare forced Governor...
...Iacocca was presiding over Chrysler's press briefings in what he dubbed "the gloom and doom room" because of the bad news he was forced to report every quarter. He had made his second cover appearance in 1980 as a symbol of the auto industry's plight. Two and a half years later, when Iacocca had turned Chrysler around, he was on the cover again. "Iacocca was by then referring to the pressroom as 'the boom-boom room,' " Witteman remembers...
...just as reluctant to withdraw from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and grant self-determination to the Palestinians. He compares the relatively moderate views of many West Bank Palestinians with the overheated and unrealistic rhetoric of some Palestine Liberation Organization officials, who in conversation "rarely mentioned the plight of their brothers in the West Bank and Gaza." Adds Carter: "Their statements . . . made it clear why the Israelis consider them mortal enemies and why the differences between Israel and the P.L.O. spokesmen seem irreconcilable...
...country to be solely in bettering their economic and political position. The book is not so much a clarion call for equal rights for women, but rather a blueprint for a myriad of social changes. In contribution after contribution, the activists express a need for greater attention to the plight of oppressed minorities within their societies, for a more equitable distribution of income, for an end to the nuclear arms race, and for a greater respect for the indigenous cultures of Third World peoples...
Last week President Reagan read about Colf's plight and tried to reach him at the Kerrigan home. The President, Kerrigan says, said that Colf should throw future solicitations "in the trash" and called him "a great American...