Word: ares
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The Government has filed a $1.1 billion fraud and racketeering suit to try to recover some of the money that Keating and his family are said to have taken out of Lincoln. Several class-action suits charging that Keating siphoned off millions to sham corporations in Switzerland, Panama and the...
Though Keating's refusal to testify brought last week's hearing to an anticlimactic end, the scandal will soon be revived in other forums. The Senate ethics committee has hired an outside investigator to probe the Keating Five, and the FBI is now in on the investigation. Years may pass...
At a hastily called session, meeting under heavy guard in the crossroads town of Chtaura, east of Beirut, parliament elected Elias Hraoui, also a ) Maronite Catholic, to succeed Moawad. Hraoui, 59, is a wealthy landowner who has good contacts with Lebanese Muslims. He promptly appointed a Cabinet of national reconciliation...
In fact, each concession by Krenz seems to have created a fresh threat to his political survival. The opening of the borders to the West, for example, permitted a torrential outflow of East German marks, carried out by citizens who at last could use them, even at absurdly low rates...
A former president of Atlanta's predominantly black Morehouse School of Medicine, Sullivan is said to be troubled by complaints from colleagues in the scientific and medical community that pro-life hectoring from the White House has driven away some well-qualified applicants from jobs in his department. The top...