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...they had leased in Miami and take them to Iran. The FBI arrested Sjeklocha and one associate in an Orlando hotel room and nabbed four other alleged conspirators in California. Colonel Gillespie was arrested at his home. At week's end St. Clair was still at large. This bust, in the eighth smuggling case in the past year, came on the heels of the unrelated arrests last month of seven other smugglers for attempting to ship fighter-plane parts to Iran...
...casters. The effort, coming in the midst of the steel industry's problems, was too little and too late. Losses mounted, reaching about $166 million during the past three years. Last week the company filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy law, the largest bust in the industry's history...
...Live Aid donations be used to help American farmers pay off mortgages. But the video superstructure constructed to beam the event across the world became an open-air jail with an infinite number of electronic windows. The audience could look in, but the musicians could never really bust...
...Qwest or Verizon.) WorldCom bond investors had a second reason to cheer when J.P. Morgan Chase agreed last week to pay $2 billion to settle investor claims, joining Citigroup and other Wall Street firms that had underwritten a WorldCom bond issue only about a year before the telecom went bust. With some $6 billion now pledged--the largest securities class-action settlement in U.S. history--bondholders may get back up to half the value of their lost investments. Meanwhile, investment banks have new motivation to scrutinize a company's books more closely before endorsing a bond issue for investors...
...only audience member at Sanders who didn’t seem to appreciate Miller’s ingenuity was James Otis, Class of 1743, whose austere white marble bust stood just a few feet behind the artist. When Miller scrolled Wilson’s notorious quote across the Sanders stage, one could almost see the statuesque Otis shudder. After all, Otis was killed by a bolt from the heavens in 1783; the lightning metaphor might have struck too close to home for the august alum...