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...friend who wants to retire in time to help Reagan campaign for reelection. The Justice Department was prosecuting Republican Congressman George Hansen of Idaho for failing to include loans to his wife on the disclosure forms required of members of Congress. The Hansen loans from Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt were larger than Meese's (the largest was $62,000), and Hansen refuses to file amended forms. Meese has readily done so, but that might not be enough to save him. With Hansen on trial last week, Smith would have been criticized if he had not ordered an [investigation...
When the royal hunt of Mme. de Maintenon was turned into a piece of popular fiction in The King's Way (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 497 pages; $15.95), it reigned for 80 weeks on France's bestseller list. Françoise Chandernagor, 38, a French judge, has been more fortunate than most first novelists in the wealth of sources available for her imaginative reconstruction. She has drawn from the writings of two of France's great literary stylists and keenest chroniclers of the age, Mme. de Sévigné and the Due de Saint-Simon, as well...
...delivery scam was part of an intensive man hunt that has swept California during the past 2½ months. Conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service and local law-enforcement officers, FIST (Fugitive Investigative Strike Team) netted 2,116 arrests. Most of the captured felons were being sought for violent crimes, and on the average each had five felony counts on his record. The criminals included 24 accused or convicted murderers, 39 rapists, 13 kidnapers and 272 robbers. Said Marshals Director Stanley Morris of FIST: "I cannot think of any more successful operation in such a time span...
...California man hunt was a special project, Involving 120 investigators, half from the Marshals Service and half from local police agencies. The 60 two-member teams.were freed from day-today duties. Morris described much of their assignment as "plain old beating-the-streets police work." He attributes the lack of interagency bickering to the fact that the officers were tracking the habitual criminals who give the police and the public the most trouble...
...ball well and has a smooth motion. Rightly, Mike Press has a strong fastball. Presz will be working relief in Florida, but Nahigian says it isn't necessarily permanent. Lefty Jim Chenevey has a knuckle curve that sinks faster than the Titanic. Righty George Serbara is also in the hunt...