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...endure." In fact, the judge was so disgusted that he handed out astonishingly light sentences to the first two defendants convicted by a jury as a result of the probe (twelve other people have pleaded guilty). Teledyne Electronics executive George Kaub could have received 40 years in prison. His co-worker Eugene Sullivan could have got 20 years. Instead they will serve six and three months, respectively, in a halfway house. Prosecutor Henry Hudson declined to comment...
...time he earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in 1972, Tobias had published the first of his seven books. Among them: Fire and Ice, a biography of Revlon co-founder Charles Revson; The Invisible Bankers, a critique of the insurance industry; and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, all big sellers. A prolific contributor to New York, Esquire and other magazines, Tobias has also written a computer program, Managing Your Money, which since 1984 has sold more than 250,000 copies...
...concession statement, party spokesman Jan Bisztyga told a nationwide television audience on Monday that the "elections were of a plebiscite character, and Solidarity has achieved a decisive majority." Promising that the government would "not back away from the road of democracy and reforms," he called on Solidarity to accept "co-responsibility" for running the country. But Solidarity leaders rejected that astounding invitation to join a coalition government, preferring to remain in opposition and cooperate with the Communists on a case-by-case basis only...
...present turmoil. The wait may be a long one, and even when it ends, Western involvement will depend on whether the eventual winners are receptive to foreign influence or are isolationist hard-liners. Thermo Electron, a Waltham, Mass., company, is negotiating to build in China a $110 million co-generation plant that would turn out electric power and ferrosilicon metal by reusing the same fuel (coal). But, says chief executive George Hatsopoulos, "if the situation reverted to anything like the ((1960s)) Cultural Revolution, we wouldn't want to have anything to do with China...
Their means of evening the score is a House ethics committee inquiry into Gingrich's finances, focusing on a book deal that is at least as unorthodox as Wright's. When Gingrich co-wrote Window of Opportunity in 1984, he formed a limited partnership and gathered $105,000 from 21 conservative supporters to underwrite the project. Window sold only 12,000 copies, but the lost investments turned into tax write-offs for the backers. Gingrich's wife Marianne was paid a salary of $11,500 for her work in helping establish the partnership. Democrats filed a formal complaint about...