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...cows and pull in the profits that they know these studios create." Matsushita hopes to put half a century's worth of MCA creative output into new CDs, videotapes, laser discs and other formats. Besides producing movies and TV shows, MCA makes records by such heavy hitters as Elton John, Bobby Brown, Tom Petty and Fine Young Cannibals...
...Commissioner Fred Goldberg is feeling some heat. A report by the House Government Operations Committee blasts the IRS for high-level misconduct and cover-ups. "Crooks auditing crooks," charges committee chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan. Even worse, a second report by a Goldberg-picked panel of outside experts concludes that the commissioner's solutions to the crisis are "narrow" and deal mostly with "symptoms rather than root causes." Specifically, the panel found that many IRS criminal-investigation agents are not supervised, nor are they adequately trained in ethics. The report was sent to Goldberg...
Though Iran-contra ranked as the most insidious scam of the mud-spattered '80s, not one of the eight convicted offenders has spent a night in jail. Last week a court ruling made it likely that the two key culprits, Oliver North and John Poindexter, would also see their records scrubbed clean in legal terms. Further, the decision may force Congress to choose between , spectacular public hearings and criminal prosecutions in future scandals...
True enough. But the hearing had some odd ripples. One unintended result was to make North something of a national hero. And in the end, the congressional investigators failed to elicit from Poindexter hard information about Ronald Reagan's complicity. That remains murky. Former Senator John Tower, who headed a special Iran-contra investigative commission that operated independently of Congress, suggests in his upcoming memoirs that Reagan was directly involved in a "deliberate" cover-up effort...
...Stanislaw Tyminski, and what will happen if he wins? -- John Major becomes Britain's Prime Minister as the Tories pick Thatcher's favorite to succeed her. -- The Soviets face their most miserable winter since World War II, Germany begins ferrying tons of food, and the U.S. worries about whether its aid would reach the neediest...