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Michael Lazar, former city transportation head, was also convicted of two counts of mail fraud; ex-PVB director Lester Shafran was convicted of two counts of mail fraud; and businessman Marvin Kaplan was convicted of one count of mail fraud and perjury for lying before the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...loser. It's exactly the same psychology they use in Russia. If somebody's a dissident, they call him a troublemaker, a neurotic. They even send him to a psychiatric hospital. It's a Time magazine-CIA-ex-Harvard con, that you're not really `serious' like the businessman is `serious...
...Benjamin Weir, on Sept. 14, 1985. According to Israeli reports, President Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for Israel's help in securing Weir's freedom. Five days later Iran got some of the Hawk missiles and guidance equipment that had been on the shopping list relayed through Businessman Khashoggi. They are said to have been delivered by a DC-8 cargo plane that was once owned by a Miami-based air-transport company. The aircraft took off from Tabriz, Iran, disappeared from radar screens over Turkey, made what was supposed to be a "forced landing" in Israel and later...
...violated a U.S. law regulating aid to the contras. The colonel's name briefly surfaced again last month when Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus was captured in Nicaragua after his plane was shot down while he was flying weapons to the contras. A card found in the wreckage belonged to a businessman thought to have links to North...
Kennedy defeated his opponent, Businessman Clark Abt, 72% to 28%. Characteristically, he puts his victory in emotional perspective: "If you just do it the way you really believe it should be done, there is some justice." (His sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend did not fare so well in her bid for Congress. She lost to incumbent Maryland Republican Helen Delich Bentley, 41% to 59%.) Kennedy has been faulted for his impulsive nature; he is no intellectual and appears unreflective. "Clearly, he's not a great thinker," says one longtime Massachusetts political observer. "But he makes up for it by doing...