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WHILE CASPAR WEINBERGER AND FIVE OTHER SUSPECTS IN the Iran-contra affair got pardons for Christmas, the Santa in the White House was not so generous to everyone. CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, the onetime Defense Secretary indicted for helping the Bank of Credit & Commerce International secretly buy two U.S. banks, received coal in his stocking. He was up for consideration, but counsel C. Boyden Gray recommended against a pardon, and Bush agreed. Reason: Clifford's indictment suggests he reaped a bundle from his B.C.C.I. connection...
...York prosecutor Robert Morgenthau has shown the way in his pursuit of the BCCI bank scandal and ultimate Washington insider Clark Clifford. The bank was long known in industry and government intelligence circles as, among other things, a huge money-laundering center for international drug traffickers...
What this means, for the slow of mind and faint of heart, is that some of that money found its way into Clifford's pockets. One can only conclude that the government's persistent refusal to follow this bloody money trail, relentlessly, is because too many people as well-connected as Clark Clifford...
...have proved in the Clifford case, and in Irangate, that they know how to trace the money, from its source to wherever it winds...
...went to play at other schools, it'shighly unlikely that I would be in a startingposition," says Honolulu native Clifford H. Chen'95, a goalie for the men's water polo team whowas recruited by the University of California atLos Angeles and at Berkeley. "[There is] too muchcompetition there...