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...rift could wreck those victory chances. The dispute focuses attention on the all but ignored third partner in the coalition, Fabre's Radicals. By far the most conservative of the three leftist parties, the Radicals draw much of their support from small shopkeepers and professionals, mainly in southwestern France. Although the Radicals command no more than 4% of the left vote, their support may be crucial to the Socialist and Communist parties if they are to get a working majority in the Assembly...
...houses. In Santa Rosa, Calif., a 90-minute commute north of San Francisco, buyers in June began camping out in sleeping bags on a Thursday night to be first in line Saturday morning when 27 houses in a new subdevelopment went on sale. In the Kendall neighborhood of southwestern Dade County, the last open area reasonably close to Miami, prospective buyers on weekends parade caravan-like in cars and campers through flag-festooned developments...
...Ashley, Bell claims that he was fired for joining with Gravitt to create fictional expense accounts and for forcing female employees to trade sex for promotions. On the witness stand, Ashley-who already has won 1 million suit against Southwestern Bell for tapping his phone-admitted falsifying expense forms but claimed he did so to cover up political payoffs. Said I didn't take one penny of Bell money for my use ever. I spent a lot of money on whiskey and a lot of money on politicians...
...whole affair seems an extreme case of office politics. "There were always rival factions within [Southwestern] Bell " says one insider. "When Angus Alston the chairman of the board, was dying of cancer in 1974, a new group came into power and wanted to get rid of their enemies, Gravitt and Ashley." Pat Maloney the flamboyant lawyer for Gravitt's widow, pointed to a Bell organization chart in the San Antonio courtroom; he accused Gravitt's successor, Chester L. Todd, of instigating the investigation that led to the executive's death only to get his job Asked Maloney...
...scandal already has brought consequences. After Gravitt's death, the Texas legislature passed a law giving state rather than city officials the power to approve or deny telephone rate increases In its first rate case decided in 1976, the new state commission gave Southwestern Bell less than one-fifth of a $298 million raise that the company sought...