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...ANOTHER LEVEL, the public opening of the green has released a spate of vindictive behavior toward the Fly Club, and final clubs in general. Last Friday, for example, Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 "danced triumphantly in the garden," as though celebrating the ousting of a tyrant...
...focus of Sicilian gang wars that have killed at least 300 since 1981. The new drug Mafia has also gunned down several high-ranking Italian security officials, including General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the prefect of Palermo who was assassinated in September 1982. Dalla Chiesa's murder resulted in a spate of new laws that led directly to the current trial. Some of those on the losing side of the gang war turned to the police for protection; 30 of them are scheduled to testify...
White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the polygraph questions will concern security, not an individual's personal life. Speakes denied that the stepped-up use of lie detectors is directly related to the spate of spy arrests this year. Those cases caused enough alarm about national security, however, that criticism of Reagan's latest resort to the machine has been notably muted...
Those moves were the latest in the spectacular spate of mergers, acquisitions and takeover wars that have transformed the U.S. economy in recent months and become matters of grave concern in American boardrooms, courtrooms and legislatures. In 1985 companies were acquired, wholly or in part, at the frantic rate of eleven a day. When the dollar value of those deals is finally totted up, it is certain to surpass the record $125 billion reached in 1984. Says Democratic Representative Timothy Wirth, who chairs a House subcommittee that has been studying acquisitions: "These mergers and takeovers are having as profound...
...troubling statistics. The $200 billion U.S. budget deficit could drive interest rates back up and stifle growth. And the $150 billion trade deficit continues to drain money out of the American economy. Finally, today's stock boom is built in part on debt accumulated to pay for the recent spate of megadollar takeovers and leveraged buyouts...