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Church-state unanimity runs deeper than doctrine. The liberal Johannesburg Sunday Times this year published a major expose on the Broederbond, the secret clan of 12,000 leading Afrikaners sworn to uphold apartheid and considered to be more powerful than Parliament. The Sunday Times reported that 750 Afrikaner ministers, fully 40% of the clergy, were Broederbond members...
Unlike most Italian politicians. Andreotti is not a flamboyant orator. He speaks like a man reciting the Rome telephone directory. He is a tactician, not a grand strategist in the mold of his longtime colleague Aldo Moro, who was kidnaped on the day Andreotti's Cabinet was sworn in. "I'm not too keen on ideological discussion," Andreotti once conceded. "I couldn't tell you if Marx is better than Proudhon and if Lenin is a good or evil genius in history." Fabrizio Cicchitto, a Socialist Deputy, claims Andreotti displays "a willful absence of long-range vision...
More important, the President has sworn to reduce the deficit for fiscal 1980 to $30 billion. To the dismay of some liberal advisers, he told an October meeting of Cabinet members and the White House staff that "my political future" depends on redeeming that pledge, which meant that nobody should dare bring him ideas for new programs...
...Somerville Lumber Company sued Marie Howe and her friend Walter Silva for almost $3500, for not paying for a shipment of lumber and other building materials. Howe now admits that she in fact received the goods from Somerville Lumber after ordering them. But in sworn testimony "signed under the pains and penalties of perjury," Howe denied ever receiving the building materials. The case was eventually settled out of court. Somerville Lumber owner Harold Cohen refused to talk about the suit, apparently fearing retribution by the Howe family. "I admit it," he said. "I'm a coward...
Early in September, Syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson published a story hinting that the Justice Department's decision to stop trying to extradite Vesco was proof that his influence-buying scheme had succeeded. Anderson also obtained sworn statements from Herring's secretary, Geralynne Hobbs, that she had typed and mailed to Jordan and Kirbo several letters about Vesco's proposals...