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Kansas, the first state to go dry (in 1881), the state that made Carry Nation's saloon-shattering hatchet famous, last week became the 48th to go wet. Utah and West Virginia still limit the sale of alcohol to private clubs. But in 36 out of 105 Kansas counties, it is now party time. Exulted Stewart Williams, manager of a Wichita bar: "Kansas has finally come into the 20th century...
...machinery shipments represent perhaps the most egregious violation yet of regulations established by the 16-nation Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, the body that oversees the sale of Western high-technology products to the Soviets and their allies. After Washington protested in March to the Japanese and Norwegian governments, Tokyo and Oslo took action. Two Toshiba Machine executives thought to have been involved in the improper deal were arrested and charged with violating Japanese export laws. In addition, Toshiba Machine was prohibited from selling any goods to 14 Communist countries for one year. Though not directly implicated in the scandal...
...Americans would concern themselves more with morality and worry less about the sexual behavior of their politicians, they would impeach Reagan for the Iran-contra arms sale and forgive Gary Hart his venial sins...
DIED. Maurizio Vitale, 41, Italian clothing magnate, who outraged the Vatican in the early 1970s by pairing bulging buttocks and parodies of Christian teachings in ads for his Jesus Jeans; of AIDS; in Turin, Italy. Never publicity shy, Vitale followed up a $100 million 1979 jeans-and-jacket sale to the Soviet Union by becoming official supplier of off-track uniforms to the 1984 U.S. Olympic team...
...After a pressurized seven-hour meeting of its board of directors, the 52-year-old firm announced that Chairman Richard Ferris, 50, had resigned and would be replaced by Frank Olson, 54, who is currently head of the company's Hertz rental-car subsidiary. At the same time, for-sale signs were tacked onto Hertz as well as the Westin and Hilton International hotel chains, whose 149 hostelries constituted the third branch of the firm. Management also said it would seriously consider demands by the pilots for employee ownership. Finally, Olson recommended that the company's name, which had been...