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...corporations, including Pacific Bell and Cigna insurance company, are now allowing AIDS sufferers to stay on the job as long as their failing health permits. Three years ago, when two BankAmerica employees in San Francisco flatly refused to work with an AIDS victim, the company let the objectors resign and kept the disease victim in | his post. Says Nancy L. Merritt, a BankAmerica vice president: "We recognize the therapeutic value of employees being allowed to work as long as they can." At the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss, the blue jeans manufacturer, an AIDS victim who was allowed...
...Securities, Robert Brennan appeared in TV commercials, hopping out of his helicopter and imploring viewers to "come grow with us." Apparently, the message got through. Since 1980 his firm has increased its number of clients from 200,000 to 500,000. But Brennan revealed last week that he will resign as chairman and look for new growth opportunities elsewhere...
...again the target of Government probes: one involving allegations of stock manipulation and another that deals with illegal campaign contributions. While admitting that the well-publicized investigations have left "battle scars," Brennan denies the charges against First Jersey and maintains that they had no bearing on his decision to resign...
Shultz' public threat to resign forced the Adminstration to back down from the testing plan, and the Secretary was hailed for his principled position. Even Anthony Lewis '48 of The New York Times, one of the most consistent and forceful foes of the foreign policy Shultz oversees, was moved to wax eloquent about Shultz' role in the affair. He called it "a reaffirmation of the role of personal character in public life...
...first federal judge to be impeached by the House of Representatives in a half-century and only the eleventh in history. The vote in the House was unanimous: 406 to 0. Convicted of tax evasion in 1984 and sentenced to two years in prison, Claiborne, 69, has refused to resign from the bench because he contends that he was a victim of government harassment. He intends to fight his ouster when the Senate hears the case in September. In the meantime, he continues to draw his $78,700-a- year salary...