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...President's library built and operated entirely with private funds, except for the Rutherford B. Hayes library in Fremont, Ohio. The library is Nixon's show. It will contain only a very careful selection of the presidential papers. The original papers are stored in a government archives in Alexandria, Va. Nixon has succeeded in blocking the release of 150,000 pages of documents. One can understand why a man who failed to burn the White House tapes that eventually doomed his presidency would in later life grow careful about information and its control...
...This league wouldn't fly in rich places," Lars said. Last season, the upper-class Fairfax, Va., franchise had folded. The blue-collar Scranton, Pa., organization had survived...
...lodging in a friend's condominium in Florida for 35 days during the past five years. Senate rules demand that such "gifts" be reported; Durenberger later recommended the friend for a federal job. His report also listed a $484,332 bank loan to buy a town house in McLean, Va., a transaction first revealed in news accounts and not mentioned in the Senator's previous financial statements...
...Action" Jackson knows how to strike a deal. But none of his promotions have ever stirred such a fuss as his Christian Members Buyers Plan. A born-again Christian, Jackson sells Lincolns for $600 over dealer cost and Mercurys for a mere $250 markup to certifiable Christians in Fairfax, Va. Ministers get an even better deal, and with each sale Jackson makes a donation to the church of the buyer's choice...
...allegations could slow or even reverse the growth of Stallings' empire. Since founding his original Imani Temple, which meets in a rented community center, Stallings has established satellite congregations in Norfolk, Va., Baltimore and Philadelphia. To date he has attracted several thousand disciples, both ex-Catholics and ex-Protestants. Stallings says he gives eight or ten speeches a month around the U.S., and each time he speaks, local blacks want to set up churches. But the priest of a second African-American congregation in Washington forsook Stallings last year...