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Even before the Marcoses were indicted in late 1988 for racketeering, mail fraud and obstruction of justice, Imelda was hoping to exercise her old influence. In a "Dearest Nancy" letter to the then First Lady, she pleaded -- to no avail -- for the Reagans to help with the Marcoses' legal problems. At least old friend Doris Duke came through with bail. For his involvement, Khashoggi, a man of multiple houses but no fixed address, was saddled with bail of $110 million -- and an electronic ankle band that keeps prosecutors informed of his whereabouts as he roams from smart Manhattan boites...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally appealed to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for clemency, but to no avail. After the hanging, Iraqi Information Minister Latif Nassif Jassim told journalists, "Mrs. Thatcher wanted him alive. We gave her the body...
Efforts to clean up HUD also ensnared a Democrat last week. Agency officials said Jesse Jackson bombarded them for months with calls on behalf of developer A. Bruce Rozet, a key Jackson fund raiser. To no avail: Rozet, who had grown rich on Government contracts, was barred from receiving more. Meanwhile HUD is examining why his tenants were allegedly left "to live like rats...
...first important figure of a black in American art is in Copley's Watson and the Shark, 1778. The black has just thrown a line, without avail, to naked Watson, who wallows helplessly in the green waters of Havana Harbor as the shark charges in to bite his leg off. As McElroy observes, the outstretched arms of Watson and the black "mirror each other," and it may even be that Copley meant Watson's presence in the water to remind us, by reversal as it were, of the slavers' practice of dumping dead Africans into...
...list of about 20 names of Soviet citizens who were seeking to emigrate. On Sunday Baker was to give Shevardnadze a list of 95 more names. At summits throughout the 1970s and much of the '80s, the U.S. regularly presented such lists to the Soviet side, commonly to no avail. This time Bush recognized that the Soviet Union has made "great strides" in resolving individual cases. "Let's set a goal," Bush suggested, "that by next year's summit we won't have another list to give...