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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conjuration of the Past | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Welcome to the Minor Leagues | 7/17/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of David Durenberger | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALES PROMOTIONS: Bargain for the Born Again | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholicism's Black Maverick | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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