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...hottest thing traipsing through Hollywood last week was not another $1 million, half-written movie script, or Julia Roberts, or even Warner Bros.' squad of shiny dark Jaguars. Instead it was a supposedly top-secret 28-page memo from Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief of Walt Disney Studios, to a small group of his colleagues. In the memo, which leaked out and instantly set fax machines buzzing all over town, Katzenberg called on the studio to avoid high- priced stars whenever possible, shun the "blockbuster mentality that has gripped our industry" and return to Disney's roots as a budget-minded filmmaker...
...alleged violations are relatively small, involving medical supplies and computers. But some concern illegal weapons shipments. Moreover, congressional investigators are probing an Italian bank's handling of $750 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture credits extended to Iraq in the 1980s for food purchases. In an internal memo dated Feb. 23, 1990, administrator F. Paul Dickerson warned Under Secretary Richard Crowder: "In a worst case scenario, investigators would find a direct link to financing Iraqi military expenditures, particularly the Condor missile." Despite Dickerson's warning, the department was still considering $500 million in additional credits when Saddam invaded Kuwait...
...last time the U.S. tried "to preserve our national honor as guarantor" was during the Vietnam War. This objective, according to a memo from Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton to Lyndon B. Johnson, was the prime motive of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia. He thought a pullout would irreparably damage U.S. credibility throughout the world. So the U.S. remained in Vietnam. Ultimately, U.S. credibility was damaged precisely because it chose...
...Memo to football fans: forget Super Bowl XXV in Tampa next Jan. 27. The real National Football League game of the year will be in San Francisco's Candlestick Park on Dec. 3, when the defending Super Bowl-champion 49ers collide with the New York Giants. When they met a year ago, the 49ers won 34-24; expectations about the battle to come have been climbing alongside the win-loss statistics of both teams, which have achieved historic heights...
Cambridge signed the memo to satisfy state and federal environmental protection agencies concerned about air pollution. It also signed the memo to reach an out-of-court settlement with a group of residents who were suing the city because it was allegedly violating a 1973 parking freeze...