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...will hurl a charge at Mr. Lance and a little bit more mud gets on the character and reputation of Mr. Lance." He criticized Ribicoff and Percy for spreading the vague claim that Lance had been accused of new illegalities-but never revealing what they were. In a closed session of the committee, the two leaders briefed the other Senators on what they had found and, said Eagleton, he heard only rehashes of what had been in the newspapers...
...Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer by terrorists of the notorious Red Army Faction (TIME, Sept. 19). In a daring ambush of his automobile, Schleyer's three bodyguards and chauffeur were killed; it was the third terrorist attack on a prominent West German this year. Speaking before a packed session of the Bundestag last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt made an emotional televised appeal to Schleyer's kidnapers to "stop this mad operation," which strikes "against our liberal order as a whole, against any human order whatsoever and therefore against all of us." He assured West Germans-who according...
Sullivan then promised the council he would see that the committee meet before the next council session Monday. Defillippi said yesterday, however, that the committee would probably not meet for one or two weeks...
...President's embattled friend has demanded a chance to defend himself fully against charges of misusing his top positions at two Georgia banks to enhance his free-spending lifestyle and embark on a political career. Lance should get that opportunity this week in a session with the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee, which approved his elevation to OMB director last January, ringingly re-endorsed him only seven weeks ago and now seems to feel it was misled. But no matter how forcefully and shrewdly Lance defends his banking past, his usefulness as Carter's penny-pinching Budget Director...
...special summer session, the Knesset passed by an overwhelming vote (92 to 4) a resolution categorically repudiating the P.L.O. as a "discussion partner for the state of Israel in any Middle East peace negotiations." As a bit of parliamentary sleight of hand, the resolution was proposed by the Democratic Movement for Change so that the Labor Party could back it without seeming to support Premier Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition. A similarly worded Likud resolution had earlier been defeated by the D.M.C. and Labor opposition. The political maneuvering, however, hardly obscured the fact that there is a solid...