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...board members know that his bank was the target of a securities probe. It has also been disclosed that while serving on the SFC board, Thompson tried to sell Utica stock to Texas Oilman Belton K. Johnson, even as Johnson sought multimillion-dollar subsidies from the SFC for two tar-sands projects. Last week the agency asked the Justice Department to look into bringing criminal charges against Thompson...
...trail, Hunt has tried to ignore the Helms attacks and stress his own achievements as Governor. "We will take our lumps right now, lay out our organization and get the campaign going on our terms," explains Hunt Press Aide Stephanie Bass. "If they can talk us into punching the tar baby, they've got us." Hunt has developed a strong supporting machine through a patronage system affecting about 4,800 state jobs and appointments. He describes the race as probably one between "a moderate and a reactionary." The Helms strategy, on the other hand, is to draw the lines...
...George Brett's "pine tar" home run provided perhaps the most memorable news from last year's baseball season. Who was on base when Brett hit the tworun homer against the Yankees...
...ranked Tar Heels, who have lost twice in 29 games, will meet the winner of the first-round game between Temple and St. John's in the East Regional...
...guard with fully loaded guns. Some of those who had been based in Beirut were being billeted on American ships and ferried ashore by helicopters. Others were hard at work building new fortifications. Most guard posts were being reinforced and rearmed. Six-foot-high mounds of dirt, rows of tar-filled steel drums, sandbags and concertina wire blocked off the entrance to the Marine compound. Ironically, the little-used route through the parking lot that had been followed by a suicide bomber on Oct. 23, killing more than 230 U.S. servicemen, became the only approach to the headquarters. Heaps...