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...even keener interest than Mullen's role is why the White House agreed to the curtailment of the FBI's probe of Donovan. The day before the Labor Secretary's confirmation hearings began, an FBI official telephoned Fielding and informed him of "a tape recording" linking Donovan socially with "hoodlums." Fielding insists that he passed along all important information to his superiors, but says the White House was not fazed by the unsubstantiated charges. Counters one senior presidential adviser: "Fred was the only one directly in touch with the FBI investigation...
...attempt to cut down on federal red tape, and return control over education to the states, next year's budget is organized to amass certain elementary and secondary school programs that were previously earmarked for specific projects into block grants. Approximately $400 million out of $5 billion that was previously divided into categorical grants will be given to the states to spend as they see fit, within the same broad areas. Money specifically earmarked for desegregation programs has been eliminated...
...attended a social affair with William Masselli, an admitted Mafia family member. Fielding told TIME that the information was not identified as coming from a wiretap, and he thus regarded it as "just another allegation." FBI records, however, show that Fielding was told the evidence came from a "tape recording...
...Film Festival. For 13 days on the cool but sunny Côte d'Azur, fantasies of art and avarice were spun with blithe disregard for events in the waking world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras' Missing and a Turkish production, Yilmaz Güney's Yol - were winning the festival's top prize, the restaurants were abuzz with...
...forth between the word processor and a desk that once belonged to his father. He refers to one of the remarkable diaries he kept so doggedly through his four years. Each evening, no matter how tired he was, he dictated his feelings-often blunt and troubled-into a tape recorder. Six thousand pages of transcripts, a historian's treasure, now fill dozens of black books on shelves that surround his desk...