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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inquiry, court inquest, at least five books and countless investigations by magazine, newspaper and TV reporters. Almost everything in Kennedy's description of the night's events has been challenged; even the judge who presided at the inquest was skeptical. But Kennedy has steadfastly stuck by his account, which he first related on TV a week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that he and Kopechne were intentionally heading toward the beach or that he spent the hours after the accident trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Night That Haunts Him | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

According to the official account, a fierce argument erupted between the intelligence chief and Cha. Kim, a relative moderate, made a last-minute plea to Park to ease his harsh treatment of unruly dissidents. Cha chided Kim for his softness. At about 6:50 p.m., said a high government investigator, Kim left the dining room to meet two co-conspirators and told them, "I will finish them off tonight, so when you hear the gunshots inside, finish off the presidential bodyguard outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Assassination in Seoul | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Further evidence of the Israeli government's sensitivity on the Palestinian question came to light last week when it became known that a ministerial censorship committee had prevented former Premier Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Lesson of Elon Moreh | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...chairman of Cleveland Trust, Brock Weir, denies the mayor's account of their meeting. But minutes of a Cleveland Trust meeting the same day also suggest the sale of Muny Light was a condition for renewing the city's notes. At a hearing held by a House Banking Subcommittee, Weir conceded Cleveland Trust's lending policies toward the city under Kucinich differed from those applied under his predecessor, Perk. Weir attributed the difference to Kucinich's rudeness; in particular, he mentioned the mayor's public characterization of him as a "blood-sucking vampire...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Bare Knuckles in Cleveland | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...attracted and held onto an above-average group of investment specialists because it gave them a chance to spend all their time making specific decisions on which account, Harvard's $1.4 billion endowment. They don't spend much time on internal administration because the company is so small, and they don't spend any time on attracting more business or customers because the Corporation won't permit it. "They get to spend 90 or more per cent of their time on the fun part of it," Putnam says. In other investment firms, "as you move up in this field...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Guardians of the Nest Egg | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

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