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Henry Lyons resigned as president of the largest black American religious body, the National Baptist Convention USA . He had been convicted of racketeering and grand theft for 1) selling bogus membership lists to companies that sought access to black consumers; and 2) stealing donations intended to rebuild burned black churches.
Henry Lyons was describing his theft of the $250,000 that the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith had donated to rebuild black churches destroyed by fire.
The investigation of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was excessive, the campaign against former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was "cruelly unfair," and the Whitewater investigation--led by "a prominent Republican known for his animosity toward the president"--is, in the words of Arkansas journalist Gene Lyons, "the result of the nastiest and most successful political 'dirty tricks' campaign in recent American history."
The Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons says that McCann "fearlessly exposes a man like a surgeon probing his own wounds."
moral and intellectual" (Donald Lyons, the Wall Street Journal ). Others take the occasion to recall, resentfully, how the "reactionary" show beat out Hair for a Tony; Newsday 's Linda Winer declares it "Broadway's equivalent of an extremely competent after-school special."