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...hinted that the company might even help women who wanted their implants removed and could not afford the surgery. But Dow Corning's problems are not over. Last week a congressional committee asked for a criminal investigation into the firm's handling of implants. Among the evidence: a 1980 memo from a Dow Corning salesman complaining that the company's decision to put "a questionable lot of mammaries on the market . . . has to rank right up there with the Pinto gas tank...
...prior insistence that it would fight the women's claims all the way. Indeed, the suit had become a huge source of embarassment for the renowned newspaper, which had until that point stood firmly as one of the great bastions of liberalism. Startlingly disparate salary figures and sexist private memos written by top Times executives, which were handed over to the plaintiffs by court decree, threatened ominously to bring the great edifice down. The media, of course, was more than willing to give the Times a taste of its own medicine and happily engaged in a feeding frenzy...
...their holdings increased, however, Bank of America officers became nervous about the relationship. In a 1976 memo, a Bank of America officer said "many in the Bank of America feel B.C.C.I. officers withhold information from B. of A. personnel." Among other bothersome items: B.C.C.I.'s habit of doling out what a Bank of America officer described as "special patronage" to "leading political figures in the Middle East." But when Bank of America sold off its stock in B.C.C.I. to I.C.I.C. in 1980, the California bank loaned money to the Cayman Islands outfit to finance the deal. Those loans ultimately enabled...
This is the new Hollywood gospel, and its prophet is Jeffrey Katzenberg. In January, Katzenberg, who runs Walt Disney's movie operations, wrote a staff memo that was passed around Hollywood more quickly and urgently than a joint at Woodstock. In this back-to-basics plea, he ripped the notions of the bankable star. "If this were true," he asked, alluding to Batman and The Two Jakes, "then how can one explain what happened to 1990's vehicle for 1989's 'most bankable star,' Jack Nicholson?" He apologized for the studio's big- budget Dick Tracy and disclosed that...
...Kerry released part of a 1986 CIA memo warning the Treasury and State departments that B.C.C.I. had secretly owned First American since 1982. Yet the Reagan Administration apparently did nothing in response to the document. On Friday, CIA Deputy Director Richard J. Kerr confirmed that the agency had used B.C.C.I. to move money around the world; other sources confirmed that the Defense Intelligence Agency, which monitors other nations' armed forces, had transferred funds through the bank. But the CIA's Kerr said his agency had "aggressively" targeted the bank for intelligence gathering because, "from the early 1980s, it was obvious...