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...Times exposé generated a prompt flurry of denials. ABC said it had paid heed to Martin's questioning, conducted an internal investigation and found no evidence of wrongdoing. The network submitted its conclusions to the Los Angeles County district attorney. Spelling and Goldberg, in a joint statement, denied the fraud: "We are stunned and outraged by the allegations." Wagner, vacationing with his wife in France, said the news of the investigation was "a total surprise...
Harvard experts in Near Eastern affairs inverviewed shortly before Tito's death said they doubted it would prompt immediate Soviet intervention in Yugoslavia...
...Khomeini was not planning to release the hostages until, after the U.S. elections in November. In a note at the end of March, Carter requested the allies to make public statements and use their diplomats in Tehran to pressure the Iranians. Says a White House aide: "We asked for prompt, complementary action but not necessarily simultaneous action...
Concluded the President: "The steps I have ordered today are those that are necessary now. Other actions may become necessary if these steps do not produce the prompt release of the hostages...
...staggering figures will probably prompt Kirkland and his cohorts to challenge management authority over pension money very cautiously, out of fear of a backlash. But Barber, co-director of the People's Business Commission, points out that if union efforts were to provoke new legal restrictions on pension investment, "you haven't lost anything." However, he believes such business attempts would fail, in part because state and local governments would regard legal thwarting of union control as raising the threat of eventual federal encroachment onto their own sovereignty...