FROM WASHINGTON STRAIGHT

BOESKY TAILWINDS

To the ill-concealed delight of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino (D., N.J.), the Ivan Boesky insider-trading scandal has given impetus to an anti-takeover bill now stalled in the Judiciary Committee. Rodino and Senate Democrats Howard Metzenbaum (Ohio) and William Proxmire (Wis.) hope that the growing public revulsion with the Boesky unpleasantness will propel antitakeover legislation through the 100th Congress starting in January.