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LIKE MANY NERVOUS INVESTORS, I'VE BEEN WONDERING whether to bail out of stocks at these levels. So I've been reading the papers more carefully to find out what's really going on. In fact, I've been reading several papers at once. As a result, I'm now convinced that newspapers are no help at all for figuring where stocks are headed tomorrow. They can't even tell us why stocks went up or down yesterday. The New York Times gives an entirely different explanation than the Wall Street Journal, which gives an entirely different explanation from...
...when he was only 35, Vesco set his eyes on Investors Overseas Services, a floundering mutual fund run by playboy-salesman Bernard Cornfeld. Touting his expertise in setting up ICC (by then a conglomerate of several companies) Vesco came in with a $5 million bail-out and was hailed as IOS's savior. Very quickly, however, IOS funds were mysteriously misdirected. By the time the sec was ready to indict Vesco, the financier was gone, having taken his loot and his family, his yacht and his planes, to Costa Rica...
...Oklahoma City the last three bodies were pulled from the rubble of the demolished federal building, bringing the official death toll from the April 19 explosion to 168. Meanwhile, bombing suspect Terry Nichols was denied bail...
...District Judge David Russell denied bail toOklahoma bombing suspect Terry Nichols, ruling that he could not eliminate the possibility that Nichols might be a danger to others. Nichols' defense attorney Michael Tigar said he would appeal, and complained that his client was being unfairly treated in prison by guards who are keeping him under 24-hour surveillance and are trying to provoke incriminating statements. No date has yet been set for atrial of Nichols and fellow suspect Timothy McVeigh...
Nearly 400 police officers descended on Aum Shinrikyo's headquarters near Mount Fuji, capturing the cult's bearded leader, Shoko Asahara, after finding him hidden in a coffinlike secret chamber four hours after the raid began. He was arrested and held without bail on murder charges connected with the March 20 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment or death by hanging. Asahara denies ordering the attack, but key senior cult members have confessed to having produced sarin-and to having used it in the subway gassing...