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According to State Police Sgt. Jim Sartori, Paradiso has been "a prime suspect" in the Webster case since January. He added that investigators had considered him before the January tip because Ianuzzi's body was found about 200 yards from the spot where fishermen later found Webster's pocketbook and wallet in a marsh near Saugus, Mass...
That internal confrontation was only a prelude to the struggles the Chancellor faces in the months ahead. In a country where economic performance is a vital part of the national identity, Kohl won the election on pocketbook issues. Long accustomed to impressive rates of economic growth, West Germany may see an increase in industrial production of little more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. Although the country was welcoming migrant workers from Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Portugal only four years ago, some 2.5 million West Germans, or more than 10% of the working population, are now unemployed. The public...
...much as West Germany's allies, the nation's business community was likely to rejoice in Kohl's election. From the beginning of the campaign, Kohl had stressed pocketbook issues, warning voters that the country had been living beyond its means for too long. Industrial growth may reach no more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. The combined federal, state and municipal government budget deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election...
...overtly distrust the system, in some sort of superstitious way you are inviting it not to work. What was galling was the suspicion that they would forgive all sorts of antisocial behavior-shoplifting, say, flagrant adultery, embezzlement and, of course, mugging-provided some acceptable frailty of the psyche or pocketbook could be dredged up to excuse it. Even the faintest suggestion that an individual might be justified or obliged to use violence in defending himself touched some deep root of outrage in his neighbors and his wife...
Retailers hope that consumers will display their freewheeling ways Money does not stay long in Patricia Goodson's pocketbook. Says the manager of a fashionable women's clothing shop in Los Angeles: "If I want something, I'll buy it. My husband and I just bought a brand new Datsun 280-ZX sports car. I feel like I might not be here the day after tomorrow, so I want to enjoy things...