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Lewis J. Walker Stone Mountain, Ga...
...amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island, Ga., for the long Labor Day weekend...
...compared with those of a dwelling just down the street. A number of communities tax houses on the basis of their original value. A grand old home might have lower taxes than a brand new house of lesser quality. Some districts, such as Cook County, Ill., and Fulton County, Ga., are attempting to eliminate the imbalance by taxing all homes at their current "fair market value," but then taxes explode and devastate longtime residents living on fixed incomes. Says Ren Wicks, 65, who, as a result of a $4,000 annual property tax bite, is now struggling to make ends...
...informed the Attorney General that Johnson was having "second thoughts"-he was now convinced he had made a mistake in turning down the offer of the FBI post eight months ago. Bell quickly arranged a clandestine rendezvous with Johnson last week in the dining room at the Newnan, Ga., Holiday Inn. "Nobody recognized either one of us," chortles Bell. At the end of the two-hour meeting, Bell went away convinced that Johnson was prepared to serve for the full ten-year term established by Congress last year...
...Taiwan supporters have pushed hard to get city councils and state legislatures to pass resolutions opposing the establishment of full relations with Peking "at the expense of Taiwan's interests" (21 legislatures have done so). Officials in the Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung got their counterparts in Plains, Ga., to join in a sister-city declaration of friendship, and extended a come-visit invitation to Miss Lillian (she politely declined). In Washington the Koreagate scandal has cooled Taiwan's lobbying. Exchanges of cultural and economic missions continue. But because of the "Tongsun Park syndrome," says Taiwan's Washington...