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...other federal investigators, their check was a prized hunting trophy. Made out to the United States of America and drawn on Chase Manhattan Bank, the check for $113,018,306.71, along with other payments, concluded a 13-month tax-fraud prosecution of two companies controlled by fugitive Commodities Broker Marc Rich. The total settlement of nearly $200 million, said Giuliani, "represents the largest amount of money ever recovered by the United States in a criminal tax-evasion case...
Nicaraguan battle lines of a different kind seemed to have been drawn irrevocably at a meeting of the 58-nation Socialist International in Rio de Janeiro. Politicians at the meeting tried mightily to broker an agreement between the Sandinistas and their foremost democratic opponent, Arturo Cruz Porras, in order to allow Cruz and his backers to participate in the Nov. 4 elections, which have become an acid test of the Sandinistas' democratic intentions. Opposition forces have argued that they need more time to mount an effective campaign. Cruz and Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed...
...disgruntled former employees of Tsakos testified that Mrs. Hatfield had performed no broker or decorating services for the financier. But last week the Ethics Committee staff concluded that there was insufficient evidence to determine that the fee paid Mrs. Hatfield, a real estate broker, was meant as a bribe to her husband and urged the Senate committee to drop the matter. The Ethics Committee is expected to agree this week. The Justice Department also seems likely to come to a similar conclusion after a preliminary FBI investigation of Hatfield's activities...
Under the agreement, which Morocco may have helped to broker, the French will remove some 3,000 men, 800 vehicles and 40 aircraft, which have been buttressing the government of President Hissène Habré; the Libyans will pull out their 5,000 men from northern Chad, where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung...
...prospect that their support might be taken for granted. That was a basic theme of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's crusade in the Democratic primaries; by attracting three out of four black votes cast, he became, for better or worse, the black community's presumptive political broker. For Mondale, coming to terms with Jackson and other black leaders was a difficult but crucial preliminary to kicking off his formal campaign. The nominee did so after 50 black leaders spent almost eight hours last week debating the issue in a ballroom of the Twin Cities' St. Paul Hotel...