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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Secaucus Seven, arrested in Secaucus, New Jersey on the way to a Washington demo with an ounce of dope and a rifle in the back of their rented station wagon, have gone on to live decent, modest lives. No longer violent in their opposition to "the system," they have, with few exceptions, quietly abstained from becoming a part of it. One guy spends all his time fixing cars; others are teachers, drug counselors, songwriters. One girl writes speeches for a liberal senator whose politics smack of opportunism. She worries about...
...Afghanistan, where outsiders are no longer able to do much watching, the difference shows. Whatever story is there can't be covered properly. News must be gathered from diplomats, whose own movements are limited, or distilled from travelers, whose passionate descriptions often outrun their knowledge. The Associated Press hasn't been able to get anyone into Afghanistan since Edie Lederer, posing as a rug-buying tourist, traveled through the countryside last May. She came out with a colorful story and four rugs. In Iran, no American correspondent can get accredited to Khomeini's regime; to cover...
...agents asked to photocopy 466 of the documents and send them to Washington as part of a permanent affirmative-action file, Berkeley balked. Once they became Government documents, administrators reasoned, the Freedom of Information Act would allow third parties to gain access to them and the records would no longer be confidential. Berkeley did offer to take all of the documents to Washington where they could be inspected by officials but not copied or filed. The offer was rejected...
...compulsive secrecy that once enveloped Hughes' vast and tangled affairs. Recalls William Rankin, a longtime Hughes employee who is now No. 2 at Summa: "Everything was secret unless we were told otherwise. We hired a p.r. agency to say, 'No comment.' " Top executives no longer have to punch a code into an elevator in the parking garage before they can enter the firm's unpretentious headquarters two miles from the Las Vegas strip. Company officers now work in fourth-floor offices rather than the windowless basement rooms that Hughes' aides occupied...
British, French, Japanese and other foreign investors in the past decade have steadily bought control of 77 U.S. banks. The initial targets were usually small, often ailing institutions like Main Bank in Houston. Not any longer. Last summer Britain's Midland Bank unveiled a plan to buy California's Crocker National Bank, the nation's 14th largest (assets:$16 billion). In the past two years, overseas investors have also grabbed such multibillion-dollar banks as New York's Marine Midland and California's Union Bank. Some lawmakers say that the buying binge has gone...