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...director of Saudi intelligence and a key figure in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International scandal. According to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the well-connected Adham was a B.C.C.I. front man for the illegal purchase of Washington's First American Bank and B.C.C.I.'s main contact with Clark Clifford, the chairman of First American. Adham also received more than $300 million in B.C.C.I. loans, according to bank documents...
Like an oil spill, the B.C.C.I. affair has been slowly spreading, tarring a growing list of prominent U.S. politicians with links to the bank. They include Clifford, a former Secretary of Defense who is under criminal investigation; former President Jimmy Carter, who accepted millions in contributions from B.C.C.I. for his presidential library and his charitable foundation; former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who borrowed money from B.C.C.I. and did not pay it back; and former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who bought a Texas bank with B.C.C.I. front man Ghaith Pharaon. Even Secretary of State James Baker's name indirectly came...
Critics, and that includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine...
...former top B.C.C.I. executive will drop one bombshell after another, say staff members on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The most explosive testimony will focus on which heads of state took bribes from the bank, as well as on the role of Washington attorney Clark Clifford and what he knew about his Washington bank's connections to B.C.C.I. Clifford and his partner Robert Altman are due to appear late in the week to answer the fresh allegations concerning them...
...campus Black Student Union to adopt guidelines for the behavior of men in the dormitory who had women guests on the weekends. The code included rules for dress, language and how to deal with the dicey bathroom issue. "He was acutely aware of these things at 21," says Clifford Hardwick, a friend who is now an attorney in Savannah, "when many of us weren't even thinking about them...